friends." She also found time to do gardening and to travel, visiting the United States and the USSR in the 1930s. Legacy and honours Appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) and Associate Royal Red Cross (ARRC) for her service during World War I Marjory Stephenson biennial memorial lecture established by the Society for General Microbiology in her honour in 1953 References Further reading External links Newnham Biographies – "Marjory Stephenson" (1885–1948), Newnham College "People: Marjory Stephenson (1885–1948)", Early women biochemists 1911–1939, Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick Marjory Stephenson, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge 1885 births 1948 deaths Academics of University College London British women in World War I Fellows of Newnham College, Cambridge Female Fellows of the Royal Society British biochemists British_women_biochemists Members of the Order of the British Empire Red Cross personnel People from Burwell, Cambridgeshire Deaths from cancer in England Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society 20th-century British women scientists Associate Members of the Royal Red Cross