Dorothy Rowntree
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Dorothy Rowntree, (16 January 1903 – 5 February 1988) was the first woman in the UK to qualify in naval architecture and the first woman to graduate in engineering from the University of Glasgow.
Dorothy Rowntree was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1903. At the time of Dorothy Rowntree's matriculation at the University of Glasgow, her father, Robert Stanley Rowntree, was a surveyor to Lloyd's Register of Shipping and Dorothy is registered as living in Westbourne Gardens, in Kelvinside, an area of Glasgow.[1][2]