Draft:Miriam Homersham
Miriam Margaret Homersham (1892 – 1936) an English accountant who was a co-founder of Women's Pioneer Housing and one of the first English women to start an accountancy practice.
Educated at Sutton High School,[1] she studied at St Hugh’s College, Oxford from 1909 – 1912, taking First Class honours in English with a specialism in Old Norse. Her degree was later awarded in Oxford's first degree ceremony for women in 1920.
After working as a teacher in England and America, Homersham was prompted to train as an accountant by the new opportunities for women after World War I. She earned a gold medal as a member of Central Association of Accountants, and then joined the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors in 1922, being elected a Fellow in 1925.
Homersham established an accountancy practice in her own name, which later went into partnership with Ethel Watts, the first English woman to qualify as an accountant by examination.[2]
She was a co-founder of Women's Pioneer Housing, the country's first housing association to focus on providing housing for single women, where she served as accountant.[3] She often supported social causes such as clubs for working women by offering her accountancy services for a token fee or at no cost; and she supported other women getting into accountancy.
She died in 1936.
References
[edit]- ^ The Accountant. Lafferty Publications. 1936. p. 191.
- ^ Griffin, Penny (1986-06-30). St Hugh’s: One Hundred Years of Women’s Education in Oxford. Springer. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-349-07725-0.
- ^ "The women who reinvented housing by founding a housing association". Inside Housing. Retrieved 2024-10-11.