Kathleen Chesney

Kathleen Chesney (26 April 1899 – 12 April 1976) was a British scholar of medieval French literature. She was vice-principal of St Hilda's College, Oxford, from 1941 to 1951, and principal of Westfield College from 1951 until she retired in 1962. Westfield College was an all-women college of the University of London, and under her leadership it expanded with the re-introduction of teaching of science at the college. Having been elected a fellow of St Hilda's College in 1924, she continued her links with the University of Oxford as an honorary fellow from 1951 until her death.