Frederic P Miller

Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks Frederic P Miller

Publisher Marketing: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Mary Danvers Stocks, Baroness Stocks (25 July 1891-6 July 1975) nee Brinton, was a British writer. She was the daughter of a London Doctor. She was closely associated with the Strachey, the Wedgwood and the Ricardo families. Her family was deeply involved in changes in the Victorian Era and Stocks herself was deepingly involved in Women's Suffrage, the Welfare State, London School of Economics and other aspects of social work. She attended St. Paul's Girls School and earned a degree in Economic in 1913 from London School of Economics. She married the philosopher John Leofric Stocks, son of The Venerable J. E Stocks, Archdeacon of Leicester, and Emily Jane, daughter of Thomas Mallam of Oxford, in 1913 with who she had one son and two daughters. During the First World War, Mary Stocks taught at the LSE and King's College, London. After the war, she went to Oxford with her husband and taught economic history at Somerville College and Lady Margaret Hall. After her husband died in 1937, Stocks moved back to London. In 1939, she became Principal of Westfield College where she remained until 1951.