Girton College

Girton College
motto	Better is wisdom than weapons of war (Alumni)
founding	1869 The College for Women 1872 Girton College
Sponsorship	University of Cambridge
place	Cambridge
Mistress	Susan J. Smith (since 2009)
students	824 (Dec 2020), including 301 postgraduates
Employee	255
including professors	120
Website	www.girton.cam.ac.uk

The Girton College is a college of the University of Cambridge . It was Cambridge's first women's college.

It was founded in 1869 by Emily Davies as the "College for Women". Although men have been allowed to study here since 1979, a major concern of the college is equal access to higher education for students of all social groups and nationalities .

history

Girton College (1890s)

Girton College started out as a shared apartment of five female students in Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

In 1873 the main building of the college was built about three miles northwest of Cambridge city center near the village of Girton , from which it owes its name. This distance served as a safe distance from the men's colleges.

In 1874, two students at Girton College received jobs as professors of science and mathematics (in Girton) and physiology (at Cheltenham College ) after passing their exams .

On April 27, 1948, when women first became full members of Cambridge University , Girton College officially became one of the colleges of Cambridge University.

Main entrance

In 1969, to mark the college's centenary, Wolfson Court was built as an extension near the city center. This is now across from the state-of-the-art Center for Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge University.

Personalities

Lecturers

• Margaret Alford , visiting professor from 1891 to 1917
• Frances Cave-Browne-Cave , mathematician from 1903 to 1936

Graduates

• Mary Arden, Lady Arden of Heswall , Lawyer, Supreme Court Justice
• Beatrice Cave-Browne-Cave (1874–1947), mathematician and engineer
• Frances Cave-Browne-Cave (1876–1965), mathematician and university professor
• Gloria Cumper (1922–1995), Jamaican lawyer, educator and social reformer
• Grace Chisholm Young (1868-1944), mathematician
• Theodora Llewelyn Davies (1898–1988), lawyer and activist
• Sheila Scott MacIntyre (1910–1960), mathematician and university professor
• Isabel Maddison (1869–1950), mathematician

Web links

Commons : Girton College  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• List of Alumnae (English Wikipedia article)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Professor Susan J Smith. In: Girton College> People> The Mistress. Girton College, accessed January 31, 2021 . 
2. ↑ Helen Read: Student numbers by college as of December 1, 2020. In: Information Hub> University Profile> Student Numbers> Student Numbers by College. University of Cambridge, accessed January 30, 2021 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} About Girton. Girton College, accessed January 31, 2021 . 
4. ↑ Peter Barry: Beginning theory: an introduction to literary and cultural theory . 4th edition. Manchester, ISBN 978-1-5261-2179-0 .
5. ↑ Female professors. In:  Wiener Zeitung , December 29, 1874, p. 13 (online at ANNO ).

Coordinates: 52 ° 13 '43 "  N , 0 ° 5' 2.2"  E