Alison Shrubsole

Alison Cheveley Shrubsole CBE was a British educationist and university administrator.
She served for 14 years as Principal of Homerton [College, Cambridge] from 1971 to 1985. Prior to this she was Principal of Philippa Fawcett College, and before this Principal of Machakos Training College in East Africa. She graduated from Royal Holloway, [University of London] with a degree in history, before studying at the University of London's Institute of Education.
She was a Fellow of Hughes Hall, Cambridge, was appointed a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1982, and was awarded an honorary degree by the Open University in 1985.