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Lilian Knowles
Lilian Charlotte Anne Knowles (née Tomn; 1870–1926) was a British historian and Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics (LSE) in the 1920s.
== Biography ==
Born in Truro, Cornwall, Knowles attended Truro High School.〔〔 After a tour of the continent with her family she went to Girton College, Cambridge.〔 At Girton she read history and law taking both a History Tripos and a Law Tripos (Part 1) in 1894.〔 Both were judged to be "first class" and she was the first woman to obtain a first class in the law tripos.〔 At the time she took her degree Cambridge did not allow women to receive their degrees.〔〔 Knowles, as with many other such female students from both Cambridge and Oxford universities, was later, in 1907, to take the steamboat to Ireland to be conferred with an ''ad eundem'' University of Dublin degree at Trinity College, Dublin.〔 Hers was a DLitt.〔 Thus she became one of the ''steamboat ladies''.〔
Between 1896–99 she was one of the LSE's first research students and taught there as an ''occasional lecturer'' between 1897 and 1898.〔〔 In 1904 she gained a teachership in modern economic history at LSE — thus, according to Berg, "becoming the first full-time teacher of the subject at any British university".〔 In 1907 she became a reader in economic history.〔〔 In 1921 she was promoted to a professorship in Economic History becoming Britain's second professor in that subject (the first being George Unwin at the University of Manchester).〔〔 From 1920 to 1924 she served as the University of London's Dean of the Faculty of Economics.〔〔〔
Other service included, membership of the Royal Commission on Income Tax, 1919–1920, of the Council of the Royal Economic Society and of the Council of the Royal Historical Society.〔〔
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