Group    From 1882 

Westfield College

Categories: Education, Gender Issues

Founded in 1882 by Constance Louisa Maynard and Ann Dudin Brown, as a residential women's college modelled on women's colleges already established in Oxford and Cambridge. The name probably came from the two houses in which it was founded; Westfield Villas. Women at Queen Mary gives an unlikely alternative.

Over the years it merged with the University of London. In 1989 it merged with Queen Mary College and half the Hampstead campus was sold to King's College, London. By 1992 Westfield College had moved out. 2015 King's College moved out. The site and its five Grade II listed buildings were sold to developers in 2016 and they created 'Hampstead Manor'. 

The picture shows staff and students in 1889 in the back garden of Maresfield Gardens.

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Westfield College

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Westfield College

In these two houses on 2nd October 1882 Westfield College opened its doors fo...

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King's College, London

King's College, London

Founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington (then PM). In 1836 Kings with University College London formed the foundation of the University of London. Kings has five campuses: Strand; Guy'...

Group, Education

5 memorials
Ainoshin Togo

Ainoshin Togo

Became a student at UCL in 1865.

Person, Education, Japan

1 memorial
Norway House

Norway House

Norway House and Norway Yard.  By the beginning of the 19th century this fine house set in its own large garden, had become a famous boarding academy for young gentlemen.  We know that in 1805 the ...

Building, Education, Property

1 memorial
Alice Zimmern

Alice Zimmern

Pioneering advocate for women's education and suffrage.  Born Nottingham.  Studied at Bedford College, and then Girton College, Cambridge.  Taught classics for income and wrote influentially on wom...

Person, Education, Gender Issues

1 memorial