births
April 4, 1868
Philippa Fawcett, English mathematician and educator (died 1948)
Philippa Fawcett
Philippa Garrett Fawcett was an English mathematician and educator. She was the first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos exams. She taught at Newnham College, Cambridge, and at the normal school in Johannesburg, and she became an administrator for the London County Council.