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Mary Marshall (née Paley; 24 October 1850 – 19 March 1944) [ 1] was an economist who in 1874 had been one of the first women to take the Tripos examination at Cambridge University – although, as a woman, she had been excluded from receiving a degree. [ 2] She was one of a group of five women who were the first to be admitted to study at ...
Jan 1, 2018 · British economist, born in Ufford (Nottinghamshire) on 24 October 1850; died in Cambridge 7 March 1944. Great-granddaughter of the great theologian William Paley, she was brought up in a strictly evangelical faith in Ufford, her father’s vicarage.
Three years went by, and then the grand excitement of two women, Mary Paley and Amy BuHey, sitting, as Newnham's first pioneers, for a man's Tripos, the Moral Sciences Tripos of 1874, the only examination at that time of which Political Eco nomy formed apart.
- John Maynard Keynes
- 2010
This chapter highlights the intellectual contributions of two women who were economists in their own rights but who also married well-known and influential economists with whom they collaborated: Mary Paley Marshall and Rose Director Friedman.
Mary Marshall deserves a record of piety and remembrance, not only as the wife of Alfred Marshall, without whose understanding and devotion his work would not have fulfilled its fruitfulness, but for her place in the history of Newnham, now nearly three-quarters of a century ago, as the first woman lecturer on Economics in Cambridge, and for ...
- John Maynard Keynes
- 2010
Alfred Marshall and Mary Paley Marshall are often described as the first academic economist couple. Both studied at Cambridge University, where Paley became one of the first women to take the Tripos exam and the first female lecturer in economics, with Marshall’s encouragement.
Mary Paley Marshall was an economist and one of the first women to take the Tripos examination in 1874, achieving top marks, but could not receive a degree on account of her gender. She also was one of the first five women to be admitted and study at Newnham College as part of Cambridge University. In 1875 she was the 25 year old economics ...
