Joan Popley
Joan Popley made a bequest property to support the poor of Salisbury which has lasted down the ages
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Dorothy Lawrence
The only English woman soldier in the Royal Engineers 51st Division 79th Tunnelling Co. She is also remembered as the only woman who fought in the First World War disguised as a man.
Mary Alice Douglas
Mary Alice Douglas was a suffragist, educationalist and headmistress of Godolphin school for more than 30 years
Margaret Sarah Carpenter
Margaret was a portrait painter who painted the great and the good including Ada Lovelace, pioneer of computer programming
Martha Cranmer Oliver
Martha or Patti as she was also known was an well known actress and theatre manager described as ‘…one of the most refined and accomplished actress[es] of her day’.
Daphne Pochin Mould
Daphne led a varied life at different times she was a photographer, broadcaster, writer, geologist, traveller, pilot, and flight instructor.
Barbara Townsend
Barbara Townsend was a self-taught artist who recorded everyday life in the Close and family excursions further afield.
Sarah Fielding
Sarah Fielding was one of the earliest professional female authors. Her work is now being appraised to establish her as an early feminist writer
Becky Twigg
Becky Twigg is an organic gardener with a passion for the natural world who created the Secret Garden in Salisbury
Geraldine Symons
Geraldine Symons was a well regarded children’s author who drew widely her childhood in the cathedral close to provide backdrops for her novels.
Lady Edith Hulse
The first female mayor of Salisbury and only the third woman to become a mayor in England Edith was a philanthropist
Agnes Bottenham
Agnes founded Trinity Hospital in the 1370s she was the owner of the Rai d’Or Inn and a brothel keeper