= Ruth Lawrence
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{tag=Young University of Oxford student}
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Lawrence
> When <Ruth Lawrence>[Lawrence] was five, her father gave up his job so that he could educate her at home.
At <Oxford>, her father continued to be actively involved in her education, accompanying her to all lectures and some tutorials. <Ruth Lawrence>[Lawrence] completed her bachelor's degree in two years, instead of the normal three, and graduated in 1985 at the age of 13 with a starred first and special commendation.
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> he had tried it once before - with an older daughter, Sarah, one of three children he had by a previous marriage.
That experiment ended after he separated from Sarah's increasingly concerned mother, Jutta. He soon found a woman more in tune with his radical ideas in his next spouse, Sylvia Greybourne
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