Girton College, Cambridge told Hundred rooms with running water, Could you ever ask for more? Not unless you choose a boy-friend, Meas’ring over five foot four!</poem> Girton College, Cambridge Girton College is one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge. The college was established in 1869 by Emily Davies, Barbara Bodichon and Lady Stanley of Alderley as the first women's college in Cambridge. In 1948, it was granted full college status by the university, marking the official admittance of women to the university. In 1976, it was the first Cambridge women's college to become coeducational. The main College site, situated
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