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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]
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.
Nov 13, 2015 · Mary Paley Marshall (1850-1944) Amazon. Mary Paley Marshall was one of the first five women permitted to study at Cambridge University, and became the first female lecturer in economics at...
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M Marshall, Mary Paley (1850–1944) 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.
Mary Paley Marshall, 1850-1944. English Neoclassical economist and wife of Alfred Marshall. Mary Paley was a descendant of the utilitarian philosopher and theologian William Paley. Mary Paley would go on to become one of the first female students at Cambridge University.
Mary Paley was a pioneer in the field of economics. She was the first woman to pass finals in political economy at the University of Cambridge (although barred from graduating due to her gender), and in 1875 she was invited to return to her former Cambridge college, Newnham, as the first female economics lecturer.
After Marshall died in 1924 at the age of 82, Mary Paley Marshall contributed financially to the library and served as chief librarian of the newly-named Marshall Library, stopping shortly before her own death in 1944 at the age of 94.
