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Notable Alumnae

  

Name Occupation Joined Godolphin 
The Dowager Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair (Anne Gordon) (1924-2007)  Potter and ceramic artist  (Douglas House) in 1935 
Josephine Bell (1897-1987) Detective novelist and Physician. Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association 1959-60. 1910-1916
Antonia Bernath Actress (Hamilton House): 1995- 1999
Amanda Brookfield Author (School House): 1972-1978
Dame Mary Cartwright DBE (1900-1998) President of London Mathematical Society. Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge, 1949-68 1912
Jilly Cooper OBE Author (Hamilton House):  1948-1954
Lady Antonia Fraser CBE Historian 1944-1946
Rebecca Harris Polar explorer. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society 1981-1986
Elizabeth Lemarchand (1906-2000) Detective novelist (author of the Superintendent Tom Pollard novels). Deputy Head Mistress of the Godolphin School 1940-60
Charlotte Longfield Actress (Methuen House): 1981-1988
Deborah Meaden Entrepreneur. Star of Dragon’s Den (Methuen House): 1972-1974
Professor Susan McCulloch FGSM ARCM Opera and concert hall singer. Professor of Voice at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. (Douglas House): 1969-1975
Merilees Parker  Television chef  (Hamilton House): 1985-1989 
The Hon Mrs Justice Anna Pauffley DBE   High Court Judge (Family Division) Left 1975
Dorothy L  Sayers (1893-1957) Poet, playwright and author of the Lord Peter Wimsey novels. Translator of Dante’s Divine Comedy 1909-1912
Theodora Turner OBE (1907-1999) Matron of St Thomas’s Hospital. President Royal College of Nursing 1918
Minette Walters Detective novelist (School House):  1962-1967