Ethel Shakespear
Dame Ethel Mary Reader Shakespear DBE (née Wood; 17 Yuli 1871 - 17 Janairu 1946) ta kasance ƙwararren masanin ilimin ƙasa Bature, ma'aikacin gwamnati kuma mai ba da taimako.

Rayuwar farko da ilimi 
An haife ta a Biddenham, Bedfordshire, 'yar wani malami. Ta yi karatu a Makarantar Sakandare ta Bedford da Kwalejin Newnham, Cambridge (1891-95), ta kammala karatun digiri a kimiyyar halitta. A cikin 1896 ta zama mataimakiyar Charles Lapworth a Kwalejin Mason (wanda daga baya ya zama Jami'ar Birmingham), kuma ta fara shirye-shiryen sanannun aikinta, British Graptolites, tare da abokiyar kwalejinta Gertrude Elles.

Ita ce ke da alhakin misalai na musamman. Wannan monograph ɗin zai zama daidaitaccen aikin bincike na burbushin halittu na shekaru masu yawa. Ta buga wasu ayyuka da dama kuma an zaɓe ta a matsayin Fellow of the Geological Society a 1919. A cikin 1920 ta sami Medal Murchison don aikinta akan monograph.

A cikin 1906 ta sami DSc daga Jami'ar Birmingham, kuma ba da daɗewa ba ta auri Gilbert Arden Shakespear, malamin kimiyyar lissafi a jami'a wanda ta haɗu da shi a Cambridge. Yaro daya kacal suka haifa, diya, amma ta rasu tun tana karama. A lokacin yakin duniya na farko ta sadaukar da kanta wajen taimakon nakasassu masu hidima. Ta kasance sakatariyar girmamawa na Kwamitin Fansho na Birmingham kuma daga 1917 zuwa 1926 ta zauna a Kwamitin Ba da Agaji na Musamman na Ma'aikatar Fansho. An nada ta Adalci na Aminci ga Birmingham a cikin 1922, ta kware kan lamuran da suka shafi yara da 'yan mata masu aiki. Ta kasance baƙon dangi ga iyayen da suka yi reno kuma ta gayyaci matalauta mata da 'yan mata da yawa su zauna a gidanta a Caldwell Hall, Upton Warren, Worcestershire.

Girmamawa 
An nada Ethel Shakespear Memba na Order of the British Empire (MBE) a cikin 1918 don aikinta na yaki da Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) a cikin yakin basasa na 1920.

Mutuwa 
Ta mutu daga ciwon daji a 1946, tana da shekaru 74.

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