Dame Bertha Phillpotts
Commemorative Plaque
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Commemorative plaque located at Horne Lane, entrance to Riverside Square. Erected 2017.
The inscription states:
Bertha
Philpotts
1877 - 1932
Scholar & Mistress of
Girton College,
University of Cambridge,
daughter of headmaster
James Surtees Philpotts,
was born on this site in the
Bedford Grammar School
Headmaster's House
© Photo by Stuart Antrobus
[Editor's note: The surname in the case of both Bertha and her father James should have been spelled 'PHILLPOTTS'.]
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