Dame Beryl Paston Brown, (7 March 1909 – 25 July 1997) was a British academic and educator.
Beryl Paston Brown was born in London and educated at Streatham Hill High School and Newnham College, Cambridge. She did a teacher training course in London, however the Great Depression made it very difficult to secure a teaching post. As Principal of Homerton College, Cambridge University, from 1961–71, Dame Beryl was credited with having developed a contemporary, relatively liberal social and academic life for students, as well as a teaching course degree which was validated by London University. A proposal for the establishment of the B.Ed to the Council of the Senate of Cambridge University was first turned down in 1966, for fear of lowering standards, but was eventually approved in the 1970s with the assistance of Newnham College.[1]
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Beryl Paston Brown was named DBE in 1967.[2] She retired to Lewes, East Sussex, where she became an Open University tutor and was awarded an Open University honorary degree.[3]
Dame Beryl Paston Brown died in Lewes, East Sussex in 1997, aged 88, from undisclosed causes.[1]