Lady Wranglers.

Manawatu Herald, 14 June 1892, Page 3

Lady Wranglers.

By the cable news it will be seen tbat several of the ladies belonging to Girton and Newnham Colleges, Cambridge, have been placed as Wranglers. On the 27th of last February Miss (lough, the first principal of Newnham college, died. She was born in 1820 and her father was a Welshman and her mother a native of Yorkshire. The poet, Arthur Clough, was her brother. When she was twenty-two she started a school in Liverpool. Ten years later she removed to Ambleside, and on her brother's death, when she had turned forty, she lived with his family. Miss Clough took a leading part in the agitation in favour of women being admitted to local examinations, and some years later she assisted in getting the University Extension Scheme carried out. It was not until 1871, when she was fifty one years old, that she was asked to take charge of a house for tho reception of women students who came to Cambridge. From that timo she has been tho leading figure at Newnham. Mrs Hdgwick is Miss dough's successor. Professor Henry Sidgwiclc took a prominent part in the promation of the Higher Education of women at Cambridge, especially t^ln the foundation and management of Newnham College.