About Frances Lannon
Dame Frances Lannon (born 22 December 1945) is a retired British academic and educator. She was Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, she was educated at Lady Margaret Hall (BA) and at St Antony's College (DPhil). After teaching at Queen Mary University of London and holding a Fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, she was in 1977 appointed Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Lady Margaret Hall. She was Vice-Principal 1992–97 and became Principal in 2002. She retired on 30 September 2015 and was subsequently elected an Honorary Fellow. As Principal, Lannon oversaw a buildings project entitled the 'New Era Campaign' to increase Lady Margaret Hall's accommodation and seminar room space. The first phase of new buildings, Pipe Partridge, was completed in 2010 and enabled the college to offer all undergraduates the opportunity to live in college for three years. Further building works for the Clore Graduate Centre and the Donald Fothergill Building were completed in 2017. Lannon is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In 2006, she was a visiting scholar at the Australian National University Research School of Social Sciences and Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated Centre for Social Research. Lannon was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to higher education.
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