Muriel st clare byrne biography for kids

British historical researcher (1895–1983)

Muriel St.

Clare ByrneOBE (1895–1983)^[1] was a historical researcher, specialising in the Tudor period and the reign of Henry VIII of England.

Family

Born Hoylake, Cheshire, England 31 May 1895, she was the granddaughter of the naval architect and yacht designer St Clare John Byrne with whom she and her mother lived when her father (Henry) died in 1905.

She was an assistant tutor and a coach at Somerville, and a lecturer at Bedford College, London.

She was an assistant tutor and a coach at Somerville, and a lecturer at Bedford College, London.

Muriel St. Clare Byrne is a Somerville alumna worth remembering.

Muriel St. Clare Byrne OBE (–) was a historical researcher, specialising in the Tudor period and the reign of Henry VIII of England.

Sayers introduced Byrne to her son, who had been born out of wedlock a decade earlier and was raised in some secrecy by her cousin in Oxford.

Muriel St. Clare Byrne, born in , was a prominent historical researcher, specializing in the reign of Henry VIII of England.

Her mother was Artemisia Desdemona Burtner (1868–1923) from Muscatine, Iowa, USA.

Her life partner was Marjorie 'Bar' Barber, and she was also lovers with Mary Aeldrin Cullis.^[2]

Education

Belvedere School, Liverpool; Somerville College, Oxford, B.A.

1916, M.A 1920.^[3] Oxford did not grant degrees to women until 1920, but she would have completed the academic requirements in 1916.

Career

She was assistant tutor in English at Somerville College in 1919 and lecturer at the Army Education School, Rouen, France, 1918–19.

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