And in July, Dame Judi Dench and Dame Sian Phillips became the first female members of the club in its nearly 200-year history. In October, members of the Flyfishers’ Club in Mayfair ...

Perhaps her most noted achievement was to become Britain’s first officially qualified female pilot in August 1911, just a few months after licensing was brought in. By that point, Hewlett was ...

Kirsty Coventry is the first female ... election as the first female and African president of the International Olympic Committee - beating six male candidates including Britain's Lord Coe ...