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Article: A graduate at just 13.
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- Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
- Article date:
- July 4, 2009
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Byline: JOHN AVISON
HUDDERSFIELD child prodigy Ruth Lawrence achieved a starred first in mathematics at Oxford University on July 5, 1985.
The 13-year-old was the youngest British person ever to earn a first-class degree and the youngest known graduate of Oxford University.
As well as being the only student to attain that grade this year she was also one of two students to be awarded a prize and special commendation for the degree she had completed in two years instead of the usual three.
The teenager, who never went to school and was ...