* Wendy Johnson Brett

..... FIRST woman to be elected to the I 6-strong national council of the Association of College Principals. She was head of North Manchester Community College and North West Chairman of the Association

* Wendy Evans

 born 1972

..... in 1989 she was the FIRST woman apprentice engineer with Dan-Air at Manchester Airport where she hoped to become a licensed engineer which meant taking responsibility for signing out as fit to fly the dozens of aeroplanes which the company serviced every year. She was a sergeant in the Air Training Corps with airborne experience at RAF bases and also planned to learn to be a pilot. At school she did a Women In Science and Engineering course

* Wendy Grant

..... FIRST person to benefit from the University of Wales' new bone densitometer in 1992 which was provided with funds from the National Osteoporosis Society

* Wendy Henry

..... FIRST woman to head a national newspaper in the 20th century when made editor of the News of the World in 1987 by Rupert Murdoch ( see Rachel Beer )

* Wendy Hinton

..... FIRST Wren to be drafted to a seagoing Royal Navy ship's company when she joined the officers and men on board Arrow, a Type 21 frigate, where she was on a three-week loan draft as navigator's yeoman on the bridge. A later newspaper article stated that Myfanwy Bleach challenged Wendy Hinton's claim when she said that during the 1939-45 war she served on board HMS Sidi Ifni for about 12 months. According to the official history of the WRNS her presence on the ship was "against all regulations" and she was taken ashore by rowing boat each night

* Wendy Locker

..... FIRST woman to win a medal in the national championships in angling in 1995 when she came third with a catch of 22lbs 6¾oz. She was competing against 1031 men in the Division Five event on the tidal and non-tidal Trent and her catch at Collingham was the highest from the tidal river

* Wendy Mason

..... FIRST woman amputee to be chosen for the winter and summer Olympics for the disabled , she finished eighth in the skiing competition in 1984 and collected three bronze medals for swimming

* Wendy Potter

...... one of the FIRST 6 women to join the bull run in Pamplona, Northern Spain in 1989

* Wendy Powell

..... FIRST woman to become an influential member of Europe's largest faculty of Art and Design when made new Head of School of Graphic Design at Leicester Polytechnic

* Wendy Richards

..... retail's FIRST female regional sales manager when employed at Shell and the FIRST woman to step into the majority of her seven jobs at Shell

* Wendy Smart

..... in 1990 she was the FIRST woman appointed as second-in-command with the 1st Btn The Royal Scots in its 357- year history. She was pushed into "the front line" with the battalion's Fire Support Company stationed in Germany and on stand-by for the Gulf and her role was to act as fleet manager with the regiment with responsibility for more than 40 armoured tracked vehicles. She joined the Army in 1985 and was the only woman on an intensive fleet manager's course where she finished top of a class of experience senior NCO's

* Wendy Toms

..... FIRST woman to take part in a league game in 1991 when she was reserve official for the Third Division match between Bournemouth and Reading, FIRST woman to feature on the linesmen's list of the Football league for 1994-95, FIRST woman to referee a senior game in Britain - Telford's Vauxhall Conference/ Woking on 31st August 1996 and on 27th August 1997 became the FIRST woman to officiate in a premiership game

* Wendy Watson

..... FIRST woman in Britain to have both breasts removed for fear of inheriting cancer