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'''Dorothy Cisley de la Hey''' (6 February 1884 - ?)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=XiUbAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA178&lpg=PA178&dq=dorothy+de+la+hey+1884&source=bl&ots=OZJ-45OGGz&sig=J-MZm1s6OdKvt96ESTC2i3ub3Eg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjwoq321sXcAhXo3YMKHdY_CioQ6AEwCXoECAAQAQ#v=onepage&q=dorothy%20de%20la%20hey%201884&f=false DE LA HEY, Miss Dorothy Cisley] in ''The India Office and Burma Office List 1945''</ref> was one of the pioneers in women's education in India.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2003/04/16/stories/2003041600070400.htm | title=Trail-blazer in women's education | date=16 April 2003 | work=[[The Hindu]] | accessdate=1 May 2018}}{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> She was the founder of [[Queen Mary's College, Chennai|Queen Mary's College]] in [[Madras]], [[Madras Presidency]] in [[British India]] in 1914. It is the third oldest women's college in India.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/madrass-first-womens-college/article5617593.ece | title=Madras’s first women’s college | publisher=The Hindu | work=S. Muthiah | date=26 January 2014 | accessdate=1 May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/madras-miscellany/article7546955.ece | title=Madras miscellany: Three who led the way | publisher=The Hindu | work=S. Muthiah | date=16 August 2015 | accessdate=1 May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Documentation on Women, Children, and Human Rights|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VVzaAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=1 May 2018|year=2003|publisher=Sandarbhini, Library and Documentation Centre, All India Association for Christian Higher Education|page=53}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/one-hundred-years-of-fortitude/article5901785.ece | title=One hundred years of fortitude | publisher=The Hindu | work=Anusha Parthasarathy | date=11 April 2014 | accessdate=1 May 2018}}</ref>
She was 30 years old when she came to Madras to visit her brother, Clement de la Hey, Vice Principal of Newington College in Madras. She became the head of the college after consultation with then Governor of Madras Presidency [[John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland|Lord Pentland]]. It was called Madras College for Women, and was later renamed Queen Mary's College in 1917. Dorothy de la Hey had earned a Masters in History from Oxford and did teacher training in the St. Mary's College, Paddington. She was the Principal until 1936, when she retired, and also taught in the college.<ref name="Raman1996">{{cite book|author=Sita Anantha Raman|title=Getting Girls to School: Social Reform in the Tamil Districts, 1870-1930|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ffeeAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=1 May 2018|year=1996|publisher=Stree|isbn=978-81-85604-06-0|page=184}}</ref>

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