Helen Simpson (lecturer)

Helen Macdonald Simpson (21 November 1890 – 6 November 1960) was a notable New Zealand teacher, university lecturer and writer. She was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1890.^[1] Norman Richmond was her younger brother.^[2]

Helen Simpson
Born	21 November 1890 Wellington
Died	6 November 1960(1960-11-06) (aged 69) Christchurch
Nationality	New Zealand
Alma mater	Canterbury College, University of London
Occupation	teacher

Life

She graduated from Canterbury College, and from the University of London with a PhD. She taught at Christchurch Training College. She was the first New Zealand woman to be awarded a doctorate, and also the first New Zealand woman to teach at a New Zealand university.^[3]

On 29 January 1927, she married Arthur Barrows Simpson. She wrote The women of New Zealand, a social history survey, which was published in 1940 as part of a government programme to mark 100 years of colonisation of New Zealand.^[1]