Lucy Cavendish
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Lucy Caroline Cavendish, also known as Lady Frederick Cavendish, was an English pioneer of women's education.
Cavendish around the time of her marriage
Lucy Cavendish College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was established in 1965 as a women's college and since 2021 has admitted both women and men.
Lucy Cavendish
…women's education, for which she was honoured in her lifetime with an honorary degree, and posthumously when, in 1965, the University of Cambridge named its first postgraduate college for women after her. Lucy Lyttelton was born at Hagley Hall in Worcestershire, the second daughter of George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton, and his wife, Mary…
Lucy Cavendish College Bertram, De Brye and New Build view from the courtyard
Lucy Cavendish College coat of arms
Dame Judi Dench is an Honorary Fellow of the college