Grace Annie Lockhart, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian scholar
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Place of Birth: Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
About Grace Annie Lockhart
- Grace Annie Lockhart (22 February 1855 – 18 May 1916) was the first woman in the British Empire to receive a Bachelor's degree.
- She formally enrolled in Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada in 1874 and graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Science and English Literature on 25 May 1875.
- Although her later life was spent in a more conventional role, as the wife of the Methodist minister J.L.
- Dawson, Lockhart's academic achievement as a student provided clear evidence of the justice of women's claim to full rights in the field of higher education.
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