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Anne Clough 1820-1892

Pioneer of women’s education and later first principal of Newnham College, Cambridge.

Opened a girls school at Eller How, Ambleside.  Her pupils included Mary Arnold (later Mrs Humphrey Ward) in 1858-1860.

An account of the school is given in T C Down’s, Schooldays with Miss Clough (Cornhill Magazine, 1920).

 

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