The Lady Warnock, DBE's Biography
- Forename(s)
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(Helen) Mary Warnock
- Sex
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Female
- Decorations
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DBE (1984)
- Date of Birth
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14/4/1924
- Foretitle(s)
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Baroness (Life Peer UK 1985), of Weeke in the City of Winchester; Dame
- Surname
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WARNOCK
- Style
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The Lady Warnock, DBE
- Recreations
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gardening, music
The Lady Warnock, DBE's Professional Career
- Career
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fell and tutor in philosophy St Hugh's Coll Oxford 1949-66, headmistress Oxford HS 1966-72; former memb SSRC, chm Ctee of Enquiry into Human Fertilisation, former memb IBA; chm: Advsy Ctee on Animal Experiments, Ctee of Enquiry into Education of Handicapped; chair Planning Aid Tst; memb Royal Cmmn on Environmental Pollution 1979-85; Albert Medallist RSA; Talbot Res fell LMH until 1976, FCP; mistress Girton Coll Cambridge 1985-91 (life fell); hon degrees: Open Univ, Essex, Melbourne, Bath, Exeter, Manchester, Glasgow, York, Warwick, Liverpool, London, St Andrews, Ulster; hon fell: St Hugh's Coll Oxford, Lady Margaret Hall Oxford, Hertford Coll Oxford; Hon FBA, Hon FRCP, hon fell Acad of Medical Sciences
The Lady Warnock, DBE's Publications
- Books and Publications
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Ethics Since 1900, Existentialism, Imagination, Schools of Thought, What Must We Teach? (with T Devlin), Education: A Way Forward, Memory, A Common Policy for Education, The Uses of Philosophy, Imagination and Time, Women Philosophers, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Ethics, A Memoir: People and Places, Making Babies, Nature and Mortality: A Philosopher in Public Life, Easeful Death (with Elizabeth Macdonald), Dishonest to God: How to Keep Religion out of Politics
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