Kathleen Culhane Lathbury
Kathleen Culhane Lathbury (14 January 1900 - 9 May 1993) was a British
Early life
Kathleen Culhane was born 14 January 1900. She was the second to last child born in her family. Her mother died when she was young, and her father, a medical doctor, raised her. Culhane attended Hastings and St. Leonards College, then Hastings School of Science.[2] Afterwards, she attended Royal Holloway College from 1918–1922, where she found her interest in chemistry and graduated with an honors degree in chemistry.[3]
Career
After graduating, she was interested in entering the chemical field, but was met with complications. Employers were not interested in hiring a woman in a chemist position. Kathleen Culhane would sign her applications with "K. Culhane" instead of "Kathleen Culhane" in order to improve her chances, but once the interviewers discovered her gender, she did not obtain any job. She worked as a school teacher and a private tutor to provide for herself.[3]
Culhane joined the Institute of Chemistry, where she worked in her free time for no money. She performed emergency sugar determinations and met
In 1928, Kathleen Culhane joined the
In 1933, she started a study on vitamins and published research on it as well as married Major G. P. Lathbury. Contrary to the
Once World War II commenced, Kathleen Culhane Lathbury offered her assistance to the war effort in 1939. She was first assigned to the position of an assistant wages clerk, but eventually, was appointed manager of a statistical quality control department at a Royal Ordnance Factory.[3]
After the war ended, she retired from science at
Family
Kathleen was the daughter of Dr Frederick William Slater Culhane MRCS (1855–1920), for many years resident surgeon at the Hastings' Work House, and his wife Mary Lucie 'Minnie' née Dann (1861–1911). In 1933 Kathleen married Major George Pinckard Lathbury (1883–1957) of the Royal Marines. They had a daughter Rosalind Mary Culhane Lathbury (later Bramley) (1936–1996).
References
- ^ ISBN 1576070905.
- ^ ISBN 186094986X.
- ^ ISBN 0941901270.