Kathleen Ollerenshaw

Dame
Kathleen Ollerenshaw
Ollerenshaw signing a book in the Alan Turing Building
Born
Kathleen Mary Timpson

(1912-10-01)1 October 1912
Withington, Manchester, England
Died10 August 2014(2014-08-10) (aged 101)
Didsbury, England
Alma materSomerville College, Oxford
Spouse
Robert Ollerenshaw
(m. 1939; died 1986)
Children2
Scientific career
FieldsMagic square
Lattices
InstitutionsUniversity of Manchester
Thesis (1945)
Doctoral advisorTheodore William Chaundy

Dame Kathleen Mary Ollerenshaw, DBE (née Timpson; 1 October 1912 – 10 August 2014) was a British mathematician and politician who was Lord Mayor of Manchester from 1975 to 1976 and an advisor on educational matters to Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s.