Air Commandant Dame Jean Conan Doyle

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Air force officer Jean Conan Doyle showed a very determined character from an early age. She was particularly keen to protect the reputation of her father, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. She joined the Auxiliary Service of the RAF in 1938, and in 1940 was commissioned into the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Following the second world war, she served in Germany with the British Air Forces of Occupation, and acted as Commanding Officer of RAF Hawkinge between 1956 and 1959.

Officials and employees, Air forces, Doyle, Lena Annette Jean Conan

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Dame Mary Cartwright

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Mathematician Mary Cartwright studied Mathematics at St Hugh's College, Oxford, England. She subsequently taught for a while, and then returned to Oxford to do research for her doctorate. She moved to Cambridge University, England, initially as Assistant Lecturer and then as Lecturer. In 1930, she was elected to a Yarrow Research Fellowship, and in 1959 became Reader in the Theory of Functions. Her later work is one of the foundations of the study of dynamical systems.

Women mathematicians, Cartwright, Mary Lucy

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Dame Catherine Cookson

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Writer Catherine Cookson left school at 13 and worked in heavy domestic service. She began writing in her teens, but her first published book did not come out until 1948, when she was already in her 40s. She had published around 50 novels by the end of the 1980s, along with nine children's books and three works of autobiography. Her works show a mixture of love and despair, devotion and exasperation, feelings that characterized her real life.

Women novelists, Cookson, Catherine

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