Miss F. B. Bradfield, OBE, MA, Fellow 1895 – 1967

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The Death of Miss Bradfield on 26th February 1967 at her home in Swanage will be regretted by a wide circle of friends. There can be few in the aerodynamic world of her generation who have not been influenced by her in one way or another and many will remember her with deep gratitude.

Born in 1895, the daughter of an eminent Wesleyan minister, she spent her early years in Ilkley, Yorkshire, and Wesleyan thinking and Yorkshire attitudes were ever prominent in her life. She read Mathematics at Cambridge, graduating as a Senior Wrangler at a time when the University would not yet confer degrees on women. Many of her early papers, therefore, have “Math, and Nat. Sci. Tripos” after her name. This experience may account for the somewhat pugnacious element in a personality which so impressively, stood out among so many men.