Girton College is one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge. The college was established in 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon...
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Girton may refer to: Girton, Cambridgeshire, England Girton, Nottinghamshire, England Girton College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England Girton High School...
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Garrett Fawcett. It was the second women's college to be founded at Cambridge, following Girton College. The College celebrated its 150th anniversary throughout...
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Mistress: Girton College President: Clare Hall, Hughes Hall, Lucy Cavendish College, Murray Edwards College, Queens' College, Wolfson College Principal:...
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Sandi Toksvig (category Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge)
Jesus Christ Superstar. She read law, archaeology and anthropology at Girton College, Cambridge, graduating with a first-class degree and receiving two prizes...
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lectures Woolf delivered in October 1928 at Newnham College and Girton College, women's colleges at the University of Cambridge. In her essay, Woolf uses...
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Stockings is the first full-length play by Jessica Swale. It is set at Girton College, Cambridge in 1896. Its title refers to bluestockings, a derogatory...
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Anna Abrikosova (category Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge)
and intellectual life during the Silver Age. By the time she attended Girton College, Cambridge, Abrikosova had become, according to her roommate Lady Dorothy...
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Mary Arden, Lady Arden of Heswall Dame Frances Ashcroft Dame Madeleine Atkins Margaret Bent Dame Gillian Beer Dame Ann Bowtell Margaret Burbidge David...
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(3 km) to the northwest of Cambridge, and is the home of Girton College, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Listed as Grittune in around...
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Dina bint Abdul-Hamid (category Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge)
English literature from Girton College, Cambridge University, and a post graduate diploma in social science from Bedford College, London. After her return...
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Joan Robinson (category Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge)
Africa, the third of five siblings. Joan Maurice studied economics at Girton College, Cambridge. She completed her studies in 1925 but due to Cambridge University's...
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Margrethe II (category Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge)
in Hampshire, England, and later studied prehistoric archaeology at Girton College, Cambridge, during 1960–1961, political science at Aarhus University...
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Dorothy Maud Wrinch (category Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge)
near London. She attended Surbiton High School and in 1913 entered Girton College, Cambridge to read mathematics. Wrinch often attended meetings of the...
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comings and goings of visitors (Girton College, Cambridge, similarly breaks this tradition). Keble is one of the larger colleges of the University of Oxford...
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Arianna Huffington (category Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge)
moved to the United Kingdom at the age of 16 and studied economics at Girton College, Cambridge, where she was the first foreign, and third female, president...
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Carenza Lewis (category Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge)
Suffolk.[citation needed] She studied archaeology and anthropology at Girton College, Cambridge. In 1985, she joined the Royal Commission on the Historical...
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Stephen Lissenburgh (category Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge)
Manor Park, London. He studied Economics at Girton College, Cambridge which was one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge. He gained...
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Malcolm Guite (category Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge)
such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was a Bye-Fellow and chaplain of Girton College, Cambridge, and associate chaplain of St Edward King and Martyr, Cambridge...
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Hertha Ayrton (category Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge)
renounced her ambitions. George Eliot supported Ayrton's application to Girton College, Cambridge. There, Ayrton studied mathematics and was coached by physicist...
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Raquel Cassidy (category Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge)
Hampshire, she was educated at Farnborough Hill Convent, and then Girton College, Cambridge, where she studied modern languages. She later pursued a...
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Emily Davies (category Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge)
(22 April 1830 – 13 July 1921) was an English feminist who founded Girton College, Cambridge. She campaigned as a suffragist and for women's rights to...
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Herman Narula (category Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge)
He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree, and Girton College, Cambridge, where he studied computer science. He first became interested...
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Karen Pierce (category Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge)
She was educated at Penwortham Girls' High School in Lancashire and Girton College, Cambridge, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in English. In 2012...
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college. The first of the Cambridge women's colleges, Girton, which opened in 1869 initially in Hitchin, claims to be the first residential college in...
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Edward Enfield (category Alumni of University College, Oxford)
a Girton College, Cambridge-educated writer, Edward Enfield was born on 3 September 1929 in Hampstead, London. He was educated at Ashbury College in...
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Louise Brealey (category Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge)
won a scholarship for Kimbolton School and went on to read history at Girton College, Cambridge. She trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City...
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David Dumville (category Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge)
and Celtic at the University of Cambridge in 1977 (and a fellow of Girton College in 1978), winning promotion to Reader in Early Mediaeval history and...
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P. D. James (category Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge)
Hilda's College, Oxford, 1996 Girton College, Cambridge, 2000 Downing College, Cambridge, 2000 Kellogg College, Oxford Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge...
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Mary Cartwright (category Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge)
1930, Cartwright was awarded a Yarrow Research Fellowship and went to Girton College, Cambridge to continue working on the topic of her doctoral thesis....
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