Phoebe Myers

Phoebe Myers (13 June 18662 June 1947) was a New Zealand teacher and educational reformer.

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Portrait of Phoebe Myers - National Library of New Zealand

Myers was born in Nelson, New Zealand on 13 June 1866.[1] She graduated from Canterbury College in 1890 and taught in schools around Wellington, New Zealand, for the next forty years.[2] She enrolled at Victoria College in 1899, where she also taught as a biology demonstrator (1906–1912). Myers served on the General Council of Education, and was a member of the Wellington Philosophical Society. Myers was the first woman to represent her country at the League of Nations in Geneva, where she discussed women's and children's welfare in 1929.[1]

Myers' brother Sir Michael Myers was Chief Justice of New Zealand.[1]

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