Hannah Bettinson (née Baugh): proprietor of the Sherborne Mercury newspaper 1746-1749
Margaret Millicent Billinger ((1883-1942): Headmistress of Lord Digby’s School 1917-1942
Clementina Benthall (1817-1905): weather correspondent
Effield Bogle (1834-1905): a lady of considerable culture & a wonderful hostess
Harriet Clarke (1846-1926): Headmistress of Lord Digby’s School 1885-1905
Ann Cotes (née Hosey) (1721-1776): a role model to her sex
Lady Jane Digby (née Noel) (1664-1733): founder of a charity school for poor girls
Florence Drewe (née Grabham) (1874-1961): costume designer for the 1905 Sherborne Pageant
Dorothy Eastmont (née Parsons) (c.1612-1686): founder of a charity providing underwear for old women
Alberta Gartell (1867-1940): civilian casualty of the bombing of Sherborne on 30 September 1940
Ruth Gervis (née Streatfeild) (1894-1988): artist, illustrator, sculptor and teacher
Rachel Goadby (née Bosher) (c.1721-1790): proprietor of the Sherborne Mercury newspaper 1778-1790
Dame Margaret Gough (née Derby): co-founder of Sherborne Almshouse
Lady Clare Hartnell (1884-1975): Mayor of Chelsea during the Blitz
Evelina Haverfield (née Scarlett) (1867-1920): suffragette
Monica Hutchings (née Scott) (1917-1977): author and campaigner
Amrit Kaur (1889-1963): India’s first Minister of Health and President of the World Health Assembly
Mary Kilsbey (d.1736): blind woman & benefactress
Catherine Frances Macready (née Atkins) (1806-1852): actress
Ellen Miles (1828-1872): the fishmonger’s daughter who hooked a wealthy husband
Beatrice Mulliner (1866-1940): first headmistress of Sherborne School for Girls
Elizabeth Myers (1912-1947): author
Mary Pearce (née Gibbs) (1832-1899): matron of the Sherborne Union Workhouse
Vera Pragnell (1896-1968): founder of The Sanctuary, a Utopian community in Sussex
Barbara Rawson (1893-1953): dedicated her life to serving Sherborne
Priscella Rowland (1884-1895): daughter of a travelling showman
St Antony’s Convent School and the Order of the Religious of the Christian Instruction
St Emerenciana: the only church in the country dedicated to her memory
St Juthware: shrine in Sherborne Abbey
Sherborne Laundry Ladies’ Football Team
The Sherborne Pageant Stitchers, 1905
Sarah Smith (née Brackstone) (1802-1890): accused of ‘witching’ her neighbour’s daughter
Winifred Spooner (1900-1933): British Female Aviation Pioneer
Dame Emmeline Tanner (1876-1955): teacher, headmistress & educational reformer
Lucy Toogood: Sherborne’s first policewoman?
Annie Warren (1909-2004): lost three children in the Sherborne Blitz
Mary Whetcombe (d.1674): gave chandelier to Sherborne Abbey
Mary Willmott (née Hudson) (1745-1815): Sherborne silk manufacturer 1787-1815
Diana Ruth Wilson (1886-1969): botanical artist
Charlotte Wingfield Digby (née Digby) (1864-1935): founder of Sherborne School for Girls
Constance Ellen Wise (1882-1958): miniature portrait artist
Elizabeth Young (1858-1952): ‘Mrs Gay’ matron at Sherborne School for 36 years