Pernel Strachey or Joan Pernel Strachey (4 March 1876 - 19 December 1951) was an English scholar of French and Principal of Newnham College.

Life

Strachey was born in Clapham Common in London in 1876. She came from a large family led by Lieutenant General Sir Richard Strachey and the suffragist Jane Maria Strachey. Her mother was a friend of Millicent Garrett Fawcett