Marie Victoria Williams (born 1882) completes her schooling at St Mary’s College shortly before the South African War begins. She achieves the highest marks, countrywide, for her matriculation. Following a degree in Latin, French and Greek from Newnham College, Cambridge – Miss Holmes-Orr’s alma mater – she returns to Johannesburg and takes up the position of Senior Lecturer in Greek at the newly established University of the Witwatersrand.