Clement-Jones family - Person Sheet
Clement-Jones family - Person Sheet
NameDame Janet Maria VAUGHAN OBE DBE FRCP FRS 
, 8970
, 8970Birth1899
Death1993
FatherWilliam Wyamar VAUGHAN MVO , 9822 (1865-1938)
MotherMargaret SYMONDS , 3124 (1869-1925)
Notes for Dame Janet Maria VAUGHAN OBE DBE FRCP FRS
Principal of Somerville College, Oxford
Dame Janet Maria Vaughan DBE, FRS[1] (18 October 1899 – 9 January 1993) was a British physiologist.
Born in Clifton, Bristol, she was the daughter of William Wyamar Vaughan, a cousin of Virginia Woolf and later headmaster of Rugby.
Educated at home, and later at North Foreland Lodge and Somerville College, Oxford, where she studied under Charles Sherrington and J. B. S. Haldane.
From 1945 until her retirement in 1967, she was Principal of Somerville College. She was made DBE in 1957, and elected FRS in 1979.[1] She was Principal while Margaret Roberts studied there - a student who would later become British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Dame Janet Maria Vaughan DBE, FRS[1] (18 October 1899 – 9 January 1993) was a British physiologist.
Born in Clifton, Bristol, she was the daughter of William Wyamar Vaughan, a cousin of Virginia Woolf and later headmaster of Rugby.
Educated at home, and later at North Foreland Lodge and Somerville College, Oxford, where she studied under Charles Sherrington and J. B. S. Haldane.
From 1945 until her retirement in 1967, she was Principal of Somerville College. She was made DBE in 1957, and elected FRS in 1979.[1] She was Principal while Margaret Roberts studied there - a student who would later become British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.