Group    From 1849 

Bedford College for Women, University of London

Categories: Education, Gender Issues

Group

Founded by Elizabeth Jesser Reid as the Ladies College, the first higher education college for women. In 1900 it became part of the University of London and in 1913 moved to larger purpose built premises in Regent's Park. 1965 it became co-educational. 1985 it merged with Royal Holloway College and moved to Egham.

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Bedford College for Women, University of London

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Bedford College & E Jesser Reid

Bedford College for Women University of London, founded here in 1849 by Eliza...

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Sarah Parker Remond

Sarah Parker Remond, 1826 - 1894, African American abolitionist, lecturer, su...

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Rose Mary Crawshay

Rose Mary Crawshay

Philanthropist, feminist, educationist. Born Rose Mary Yeates in Horton, Buckinghamshire, to William Willson Yeates and his first wife Mary. When she was seven three of her baby sisters died in qui...

Person, Education, Gender Issues, Philanthropy

1 memorial
Canada Memorial Foundation

Canada Memorial Foundation

The Canada Memorial Foundation has its origins in a Letter to the Editor published in a British newspaper in 1988 suggesting a monument in memory of the contribution of Canadians to World War I and...

Group, Education, Canada

1 memorial
Guardian Angels Church & School

Guardian Angels Church & School

The church on the Mile End Road was opened in 1903, the school, shown in this picture, behind the church, in 1896. Both funded by the Howard Family of Norfolk.

Building, Architecture, Education, Religion

1 memorial
Lawrence Sheriff

Lawrence Sheriff

Probably born in or near Rugby, 1515-16. In 1534 he went to London as an apprentice to a grocer. 7 years later he was a grocer and in 1554 he was elected to the Worshipful Company of Grocers. He wa...

Person, Education, Philanthropy

1 memorial
Seizo Machida

Seizo Machida

Became a student at UCL in 1865.

Person, Education, Japan

1 memorial