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Miss Eliza Edwards

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NameEliza EdwardsTime at School1933 - 1950AchievementsM.A. Cantab. [Newnham College]PositionHeadmistressBiographical InformationHeadmistress from 1933 - 1950

Miss Edwards was our first NZ-born headmistress, a graduate firstly of Victoria University Wellington and then of Newnham College Cambridge. Before she came to Dio, she was the Head of the Waikato Diocesan School. A devout Anglican Christian and highly intelligent, Miss Edwards had a greater feeling for the School traditions begun by Miss Pulling. Before coming headmistress, Miss Edwards taught Divinity and Maths at Dio.

She was also a quiet champion of the place of graduate women in society and put considerable effort behind the scenes to ensure that Bishop Simkin had no excuse to attend King’s College Prizegiving while skipping the prizegiving here at Diocesan. Often misunderstood ‘Ted’, as her girls called her, led the School ably through the difficult years of the Great Depression and the Second World War and remained a keen supporter of the School until her death in 1978.

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