Peggy Lunam Mrs. Edge

Technical colleges also employed women chemists as Lecturers. Peggy Lunam32 attended Armstrong College, where she was Student Treasurer of the Bedson (Chemistry) Club from 1929 to 1930. She earned a B.Sc. (Durham) in 1930 and an M.Sc. (Durham) in 1932. In 1935, she was a part-time Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of Chemistry at Constantine College, Middlesbrough. 

By 1938, Lunam had been promoted to Lecturer in Chemistry. In 1942, she married Herbert Allan Edge of the Research and Development Department, Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) Agricultural Division, Billingham. She was noted as still being Lecturer at Constantine College in 1948, but later became Head of the Chemistry Department at Kirby Grammar School. 

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