Gulielma Maw (née Colbert) was born in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, in 1906. She studied in Oxford marrying Daniel Scarrat Maw (1903-1984) in 1929. During her career she served as a JP, a magistrate and was Mayor of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø from 1962 to 1963. She was a long-serving member of the City of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Education Committee, which she also chaired for many years. Gulielma Maw was made an Honorary Alderman of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø in recognition of her services to the city.
The collection mainly comprises notes, papers, reports and correspondence relating to Gulielma Maw’s involvement with and support for the establishment and early development of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø University of Technology (later the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø) during the 1960s.
The collection was donated to the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø by Mrs Barbara Maw in 2022.
A catalogue providing contents details of the Gulielma Maw Collection is available in PDF format.
Size: 1 box, 16 items.