1968, Cartwright became the first woman to receive the De Morgan Medal, the highest award of the London Mathematical Society, and was elected an Honorary Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh (HonFRSE). In 1969, she received the distinction of being honoured by the Queen, becoming Dame Mary Cartwright, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Death Cartwright died in Midfield Lodge Nursing Home in Cambridge in 1998. Publications 1956: Integral Functions, Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics No. 44 References External links Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright at Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College 1900 births 1998 deaths Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford 20th-century British mathematicians Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire Female Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge Mistresses of Girton College, Cambridge People from Aynho British women mathematicians People educated at Godolphin School Fellows of the Royal Society 20th-century British women scientists 20th-century women mathematicians