Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Kate Milligan Evans née Edger (6 Jan 1857 to 6 May 1935) was the first woman in New Zealand to gain a university degree and the first woman in the British Empire to earn a BA.Kate's family emigrated from England to New Zealand in 1862. On 11 July 1877 she graduated from the University of New Zealand with a BA in Mathematics and Latin. When Kate applied to the senate of the University of New Zealand for permission to sit for a university scholarship she did not state her gender and her application was successful. She was the only female in classes at Auckland College and Grammar School, which was affiliated to the University of New Zealand. ( Auckland University College was yet to be established.) She graduated in 1877 with a Bachelor of Arts (specialising in mathematics and Latin) from the University of New Zealand.. }
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- Kate_Edger abstract "Kate Milligan Evans née Edger (6 Jan 1857 to 6 May 1935) was the first woman in New Zealand to gain a university degree and the first woman in the British Empire to earn a BA.Kate's family emigrated from England to New Zealand in 1862. On 11 July 1877 she graduated from the University of New Zealand with a BA in Mathematics and Latin. When Kate applied to the senate of the University of New Zealand for permission to sit for a university scholarship she did not state her gender and her application was successful. She was the only female in classes at Auckland College and Grammar School, which was affiliated to the University of New Zealand. ( Auckland University College was yet to be established.) She graduated in 1877 with a Bachelor of Arts (specialising in mathematics and Latin) from the University of New Zealand.".