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Esther Elizabeth Burrows
Esther Elizabeth Burrows (''née'' Bliss, 18 October 1847 – 20 February 1935) was a British academic administrator, the first principal of St Hilda's College, Oxford, from 1892 to 1910. She was born Esther Elizabeth Bliss on 18 October 1847 in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, the third child and second daughter of William Bliss (1810–1883), a cloth manufacturer in the town, and his wife, Esther Cleaver (1808–1882), the daughter of Robert Cleaver of Saffron Walden, Essex. In 1892, Dorothea Beale, the principal of Cheltenham Ladies' College, offered Burrows the post of principal of St Hilda's, a college for women which she was starting in Oxford. She held the post until she retired in 1910. On 8 September 1870, in Chipping Norton, she married Henry Parker Burrows (1833-1871), a partner in a Maidenhead firm of wine merchants and brewers, and they had a daughter. She was succeeded as principal by her daughter, Christine Burrows. Burrows died on 20 February 1935 at her home, 47 Wood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Hilda's College, Oxford
St Hilda's College is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college is named after the Anglo-Saxon Saint, Hilda of Whitby and was founded in 1893 as a hall for women; it remained a women's college until 2008. St Hilda's was the last single-sex college in the university as Somerville College, Oxford, Somerville College had admitted men in 1994. The college now has almost equal numbers of men and women at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. The principal of the college is Professor Sarah Springman, who took office in 2022. As of 2018, the college had an financial endowment, endowment of £52.1 million and total assets of £113.4 million. History St Hilda's was founded by Dorothea Beale (who was also a headmistress at Cheltenham Ladies' College) in 1893, as St Hilda's Hall and recognised by the Association for the Education of Women as a women's hall in 1896. It was founded as a women's college, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
