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Miriam Homersham

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Miriam Margarey Homersham (1892 – 1936) an English accountant who was a co-founder of Women's Pioneer Housing and one of the first English women to start an accountancy practice.

Education

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Educated at Sutton High School,[1] she studied at St Hugh’s College, Oxford from 1909 – 1912, taking First Class honours in English with a specialism in Old Norse.[2] Her degree was later awarded in Oxford's first degree ceremony for women in 1920.[3]

Career

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After working as a teacher in England and America, Homersham was prompted to train as an accountant by the new opportunities for women after World War I. She earned a gold medal as a member of the Central Association of Accountants, and then joined the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors in 1922, being elected a Fellow in 1925.[2][4]

Homersham established an accountancy practice in her own name in London. This later became Homersham & Watts with Ethel Watts, the first English woman to qualify as an accountant by examination.[5][6]

Homersham was a co-founder of Women's Pioneer Housing, the country's first housing association to focus on providing housing for single women, where she served as accountant.[7][8][9] She often supported social causes such as clubs for working women by offering her accountancy services for a token fee or at no cost; and she supported other women getting into accountancy.[2]

She died in 1936.[2]


References

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  1. ^ The Accountant. Lafferty Publications. 1936. p. 191.
  2. ^ a b c d "Miriam Margery Homersham". St Hugh's Chronicle: 22–24. 1936.
  3. ^ Oxford University Gazette Vol. 51 1920–1921. 1921. p. 134.
  4. ^ Daniel, Danira (2020-10-07). "Miriam Homersham". Women's Pioneer Housing. Retrieved 2024-10-23.
  5. ^ Griffin, Penny (1986-06-30). St Hugh's: One Hundred Years of Women's Education in Oxford. Springer. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-349-07725-0.
  6. ^ "Ethel Watts: Paving the way for women in Chartered Accountancy". East End Women's Museum. 2020-09-30. Retrieved 2024-10-23.
  7. ^ "The women who reinvented housing by founding a housing association". Inside Housing. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
  8. ^ Emmett, Bonnie (2023). Housing for Single Working Women in Inter-War London, 1919 1939. PhD thesis The Open University. p. 80 and note 30.
  9. ^ "100 years of Women's Pioneer Housing | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-10-23.