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Historic England Honors Dorothea Bate With Blue Plaque

9/8/2026

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Dorothea Bate received a blue plaque at the Natural History Museum’s Tring site.
Bate joined the museum in 1898 at age 19 and became Tring’s Officer-in-Charge in 1948.
She identified a dwarf elephant in Cyprus and the extinct antelope Myotragus in the Balearics.
Historic England CEOs Claudia Kenyatta and Emma Squire said Bate paved the way for future women scientists.

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Dorothea Bate received a blue plaque at the Natural History Museum’s Tring site.
Bate joined the museum in 1898 at age 19 and became Tring’s Officer-in-Charge in 1948.
She identified a dwarf elephant in Cyprus and the extinct antelope Myotragus in the Balearics.
Historic England CEOs Claudia Kenyatta and Emma Squire said Bate paved the way for future women scientists.