Newnham College is a women's constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1871 by a group organising Lectures for Ladies...
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Anna Bateson (section Newnham College)
foundation of Newnham College, Cambridge. Born about 1830 to James Aikin of Liverpool, she married William Henry Bateson, Master of St John’s College, Cambridge...
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Homerton College, Newnham College Provost: King's College Warden: Robinson College Also see List of current heads of University of Cambridge colleges. The...
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known as Newnham on Severn) Newnham, Hampshire Newnham, Hertfordshire Newnham, Kent Newnham, Northamptonshire Newnham Murren, Oxfordshire Newnham, Warwickshire...
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two lectures Woolf delivered in October 1928 at Newnham College and Girton College, women's colleges at the University of Cambridge. In her essay, Woolf...
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Rosalind Franklin (redirect from King's College DNA controversy)
Franklin graduated in 1941 with a degree in natural sciences from Newnham College, Cambridge, and then enrolled for a PhD in physical chemistry under...
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Darwin family previously owned some of the land, Newnham Grange, on which the college now stands. The college has between 650 and 800 students, mostly studying...
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Philippa Fawcett (category Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge)
Mathematical Tripos exams. She taught at Newnham College, Cambridge, and at the normal school (teacher training college) in Johannesburg, and she became an...
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Anne Clough (category Principals of Newnham College, Cambridge)
promoter of higher education for women. She was the first principal of Newnham College. Clough was born at Liverpool, Lancashire, the daughter of cotton merchant...
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (category Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge)
following year she won a scholarship that paid all her expenses at Newnham College, Cambridge University, where she initially read botany, physics, and...
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Jane Goodall (category Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge)
years of college. "Newnham College Honorary Fellows – Jane Goodall (2019)". Newnham College, Cambridge. Dame Jane Goodall DBE (BA Newnham College 1961, Natural...
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Emma Thompson (category Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge)
to actors Eric Thompson and Phyllida Law, Thompson was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she became a member of the Footlights troupe, and...
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Sylvia Plath (category Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge)
graduated from Smith College in Massachusetts and the University of Cambridge, England, where she was a student at Newnham College. Plath later studied...
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Celia Walden (category Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge)
old masters. Walden was educated at Westminster School, followed by Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read French and Italian. She grew up with two...
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Jennifer Caron Hall (category Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge)
educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, Bedales School and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read English. At the National Theatre in London...
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Miriam Margolyes (category Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge)
and Newnham College, Cambridge. There, in her 20s, she began acting and appeared in productions by the Cambridge Footlights. She represented Newnham College...
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Katharine Stephen (category Principals of Newnham College, Cambridge)
1856 – 16 June 1924) was a British librarian and later principal of Newnham College at Cambridge University. Katharine Stephen was born in 1856 in London...
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Jane Ellen Harrison (category Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge)
Harrison spent most of her professional life at Newnham College, the progressive, recently established college for women at Cambridge. Mary Beard described...
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Olivia Williams (category Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge)
an independent school for girls in Hampstead in north London, and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she graduated with a degree in English literature...
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Clare Balding (category Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge)
Christ's College, Cambridge, but failed her interview and realised that law was not what she most wanted to do. She later successfully applied to Newnham College...
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A. S. Byatt (category Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge)
difficult household. She attended Newnham College, Cambridge, Bryn Mawr College (in the United States), and Somerville College, Oxford. Having studied French...
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Clare Pooley (category Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge)
novelist, speaker and blogger. Pooley was educated at Roedean School and Newnham College, Cambridge, from which she graduated with a degree in Economics. Pooley...
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Helene Hayman, Baroness Hayman (category Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge)
Hayman attended Wolverhampton Girls' High School and read law at Newnham College, Cambridge, graduating in 1969; she was President of the Cambridge...
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Dorothy Garrod (category Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge)
King's College Hospital, Physician Extraordinary to Queen Victoria and a leading authority on rheumatic diseases." Garrod entered Newnham College, Cambridge...
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Sandi Toksvig (category Honorary Fellows of Newnham College, Cambridge)
Cavendish". Lucy Cavendish College - University of Cambridge. Retrieved 20 June 2020. "Honoray Fellows" (PDF). Newnham College - University of Cambridge...
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Myvanwy Rhys (category Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge)
withdrawal of recognition from the women's hall. Rhys was admitted to Newnham College, Cambridge, to read for the classical tripos. In 1895, she won a scholarship...
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Mary Paley Marshall (category Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge)
women who were the first to be admitted to study at Newnham College, the second women's college to be founded at the University. Paley was born in the...
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Joan Bakewell (category Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge)
control, where she became head girl. She won a scholarship and attended Newnham College, Cambridge, where she studied Economics, then History, and joined the...
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Onora O'Neill (category Fellows of Newnham College, Cambridge)
she was Professor of Philosophy there when she became Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge in 1992.[citation needed] She is an Emeritus Professor of...
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Mary Beard (classicist) (category Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge)
professorship of classics at the University of Cambridge. She is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, and Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Ancient Literature...
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