Marion Kennedy

Marion Kennedy
Portrait by James Jebusa Shannon (1892)
Portrait by James Jebusa Shannon (1892)
Born23 November 1836
Shrewsbury, England
Died11 January 1914
Torquay, England
SubjectClassics

Marion Grace Kennedy (23 November 1836 – 11 January 1914) was a British classical scholar. She was a supporter of women's suffrage and higher education for women. She was born too early to take advantage of women's higher education and her father took the credit for some of her work. She helped to found and then worked for Newnham College, Cambridge, where her ideas shaped its constitution.