Elizabeth Millicent Chilver

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Elizabeth Millicent Chilver usually known as Sally Chilver or Mrs R C Chilver (born 3 August 1914 -) was principal of Bedford College, University of London from 1964-1971 and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from 1971-79.[1] She is the only daughter of Philip Perceval Graves and his wife Millicent Graves.[2]

Education

She was educated at Benenden School, and Somerville College, Oxford.[3]

Career

She was a journalist from 1937-39. During the Second World War she served as a temporary Civil Servant from 1939-45 taking up journalism again for the Daily News from 1945-47. She was a temporary principal and secretary of the Social Science Research Council and Economic Research Committee of the Colonial Office from 1948-57. She became a director of University of London's Institute of Commonwealth Studies from 1957–61 and later a senior researcher there from 1961-64. She was then Principal of Bedford College before becoming Principal of Lady Margaret Hall.[3]

Personal life

In 1937, she married Richard Clementson Chilver (died 1985),[2] a civil servant.[4] She was a niece of the late Robert Graves and her friends included the late Inez Holden who did research into the archives of the Baptist Mission to West Africa for which Chilver made payment arrangements.

See also

  • Royal Holloway College


Academic offices
Preceded by
Norah Lillian Penston		 Principal
Bedford College
University of London
1964-71 		Succeeded by
John Nicholson Black

Notes

  1. ↑ Contributing authors - edited by J Mordaunt Crook (2001). Bedford College - Memories of 150 years. Royal Holloway College, Englefield Green, Surrey: RHC University of London. ISBN 978-0902194427. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 CHILVER, Elizabeth Millicent, (Mrs R C Chilver), Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press Dec 2011; accessed 29 May 2012
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Archives in London and the M25 area (AIM25) including Higher Education in London, accessed 29 May 2012
  4. ↑ CHILVER, Richard Clementson, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 30 May 2012
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