British educationist, born in Dublin on the 15th of February 1850, the daughter of the Rev. W. A. Willock. She was educated privately, but later gained a scholarship to Bedford College, London, where she graduated with honours in mathematics and moral science (1881). At the age of nineteen she married Dr. William Hicks Bryant, of Plymouth, but on his death a year later resumed her work, and in 1884 took the degree of D.Sc. in moral science, being the first woman to take that degree. In 1875 she became mathematical mistress at the North London Collegiate school for girls, and in 1895 succeeded Miss Buss as its headmistress. Dr. Bryant served on the royal commission on secondary education (1894), and was a member of various educational committees. She retired from her post at the North London Collegiate school in 1918.
She published, besides many articles on scientific and educational subjects, Educational Ends (1887); The Teaching of Morality in the Family and the School (1897) and How to Read the Bible in the Twentieth Century (1918); besides Celtic Ireland (1889), and The Genius of the Gael (1913).
