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We’re celebrating this International Women’s Day by taking a look back at historical influential women in Lighting. Specifically, Monica Maurice and Gwendolen Sergant.

Helen Monica Maurice

Image Source: Monica Maurice in 1939 © Wolf Safety Lamp Company

Helen Monica Maurice was an industrialist and Managing Director and Chairman of the Wolf Safety Lamp Company, Sheffield, which began as a mining and safety lamp manufacturer. After working for British intelligence in the aftermath of World War Two, Maurice rebuilt the company and its markets in the post-war years and over the decades diversified the business from old-fashioned mining lamps to targeting industrial markets with a safety lighting range.

In 1938, Maurice became the first, and for 40 years the only, woman member of the Association of Mining