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Gabrielle Borthwick (1866-1952)

12 August, 202411 February, 2025 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Gabrielle Borthwick helped other women become Queens of the Road.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged Women's Engineering Society

Annette Ashberry (1894-1990)

26 January, 20235 June, 2023 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Atalanta was a pioneering engineering firm run and staffed by women and led by Annette Ashberry

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged horticulture, Women's Engineering Society

Cleone Griff (1880-1963)

8 January, 202312 August, 2024 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Cleone Benest had multiple engineering interests as well as multiple names.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged Good Housekeeping, Women's Engineering Society

Margaret Partridge (1891-1967)

28 February, 20226 March, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Sparky Margaret Partridge built a business lighting up villages in the 1920s

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged Good Housekeeping, Wembley, Women's Engineering Society

Caroline Haslett (1895-1957)

26 February, 20227 February, 2025 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Caroline Haslett believed in the equality of status and opportunity for women at work, particularly in the field of engineering. What would she think of the progress made to date?

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged networks, suffragette, Women's Engineering Society

Ella Gasking (1891-1966)

28 December, 202126 February, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Ella Gasking turned a small family business into a household name, building Batchelor's into a brand that lives today.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged Women's Engineering Society

Gladys Burlton (1890-1965)

22 September, 202121 January, 2024 Lizzie B1 Comment

Gladys Burlton was one of the first management consultants, giving companies advice 100 years ago that stands the test of time.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged retail, WACL, Wembley, Women's Engineering Society

Hilda Hewlett (1864-1943)

27 May, 202115 March, 2025 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Hilda Hewlett was the first woman in Britain to get her pilot's licence but it is for making planes as well as flying them that she should be known.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged aviation, First World War, Women's Engineering Society

Laura Annie Willson (1877-1942)

25 March, 202126 February, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment
Laura Annie Willson (1877-1942)

Laura Annie Willson: suffragette, house builder, engineer and the original northern powerhouse.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged construction, Holloway, munitions, soroptimist, suffragette, Wembley, Women's Engineering Society

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