Newnham College, Cambridge Newnham College, Cambridge Newnham College is a women's constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1871 by a group organising Lectures for Ladies, members of which included philosopher Henry Sidgwick and suffragist campaigner Millicent Garrett Fawcett. It was the second women's college to be founded at Cambridge, following Girton College. The history of Newnham begins with the formation of the Association for Promoting the Higher Education of Women in Cambridge in 1869. The progress of women at Cambridge University owes much to the pioneering work undertaken by the philosopher Henry Sidgwick, fellow of Trinity. Lectures
Cavendish College, Cambridge used as a training college, Homerton College, for women teachers, which in 2010 finally became a full college of Cambridge University. Cavendish College, Cambridge Cavendish College, Cambridge was a college of the University of Cambridge. It was founded by the British clergyman, educational reformer and writer Joseph Lloyd Brereton and was intended to connect the county school system with the universities. After an unsuccessful attempt at Oxford, he founded it at Cambridge in 1873. It was to be a 'county' college, and was named after the chancellor of the university, William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire. Brereton described his scheme