- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE0580
Webb, Jessie Stobo Watson
(1880 – 1944)- Born 31 July, 1880, Ellerslie station, near Tumut New South Wales Australia
- Died 17 February, 1944, Linden Private Hospital St Kilda Victoria Australia
- Occupation Historian, Lecturer
Summary
Jessie Webb became the first female teacher at the University of Melbourne when she joined the History Department. A prominent figure in women’s organisations she was a founding member of the Catalysts, the Lyceum Club, the Victorian Women Graduates Association, and the Women’s College. Webb, who completed two major overseas trips, is permanently commemorated in the name of the History Department Library at the University of Melbourne.
Events
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1911 - 1914
Served on the Princess Ida Club committee 1911-1912, 1914 and was delegate to the National Council of Women of Victoria
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2012 - 2044
Foundation member of the Lyceum Club
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1942 - 1944
Acting professor at the University of Melbourne
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1922 - 1923
Accompanied Dr Georgina Sweet on a journey from Cape Town to Cairo
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1924 - 1925
President of the Victorian Woman Graduates’ Association
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1914
Gave a paper to the Catalysts on the causes of war
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1916
Gave a paper to the Catalysts on Crete
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1970
Passed matriculation examinations aged 16 years. Obtained honours in English, History and French and passed in German, Geography and Physiology. She obtained the Exhibition in English and History.
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1970
Enrolled at the University of Melbourne
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1901
Winner of the Cobden Club medal
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2002
Graduated Batchelor of Arts (BA)
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1970
Joined the Princess Ida Club. Membership number 222
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2001
Awarded the Wyselaskie Scholarship in English Constitutional History
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1901 - 1912
Tutor in history and political economy at Trinity College
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1914 - 1921
Principal of Coaching College at 6, The Block, Collins Street, Melbourne
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2006
Registered as a teacher under the Teachers and Schools Registration Act of 1905
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2008
Appointed by the University of Melbourne Council as an evening lecturer in history, to teach courses on the British Empire and Ancient History
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2009
Foundation member of the Royal Victorian Historical Society, membership number 30.
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1909
Elected president of the Princess Ida Club
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2010
One of the original 19 members who formed the Catalysts
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1923
Became a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne
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1925
Acting professor at the University of Melbourne
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1933 - 1934
Acting professor at the University of Melbourne
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2011
Gave a paper to the Catalysts titled ‘Pragmatism, or the life and works of Annie Swan’
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1920 - 1922
President of the Melbourne Lyceum Club
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1923
Alternate delegate to the League of Nations assembly
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1936
Completed second oversea trip. From England to North Africa, then back to France and by train to Athens, thence to Turkey, down to the Aegean coast and east as far as Cappadocia. She returned to Germany then to Syria and Iraq.
Published resources
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Book
- Degrees of liberation : a short history of women in the University of Melbourne, Kelly, Farley, 1985
- 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne, Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 2003
- Jessie Webb, a memoir, Ridley, Ronald T, 1994
- A History of the Lyceum Club Melbourne, Gillison, Joan M, 1975
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Resource Section
- Jessie Webb Scholarship, http://www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/currentstudents/scholarships/jesweb.html
- Jessie Webb Collection, 2006, http://vm.arts.unimelb.edu.au/report/webb.html
- Webb, Jessie Stobo Watson (1880-1944), Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120473b.htm
- Book Section
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Resource
- Trove: Webb, Jessie Stobo Watson (1880-), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-767075
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Site Exhibition
- The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders
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