Caroline Herford

Caroline Herford, later Caroline Herford Blake (1860–1945) was an English educationist.[1]

Life

Caroline Herford was born on 1 November 1860, the daughter of Unitarian minister William Henry Herford and Elizabeth Anne Davis (died 1880).[1] From 1886 to 1907 she was headmistress of the Froebelian Lady Barn House School, which her father had founded in 1873. [2] She also lectured at the Manchester Kindergarten Training College.[3] Caring for her father until his death in 1908, Herford then lectured for a short time at University College, Reading. From 1910 to 1918 she was Lecturer in Education at Manchester University. She was a founding member of the Manchester University branch of the British Federation of University Women, and a member of Manchester City Council until defeated by a Conservative candidate in 1923.[1]

In World War I she was a Red Cross Commandant, organizing university students to meet ambulance trains. For this work she was awarded an MBE in 1919.[4].

In 1924 Herford married Robert Blake (died 1931), and left Manchester to live with him in Somerset. After his death she lived with a Manchester friend, Julia Sharpe, in Great Missenden. She died there on 16 March 1945.[1]

References
  1. M. E. Sadler, revised by M. C. Curthoys, 'Herford, William Henry', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004.
  2. School History, Lady Barn House School. Accessed 5 January 2020.
  3. Evelyn Lawrence (2012). Friedrich Froebel and English Education. Routledge. p. 42. ISBN 978-1-136-49215-0.
  4. Commandant Miss Caroline Herford, Imperial War Museum. Accessed 5 January 2020.
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