Born on this day 1851 in Carmarthen,
Elizabeth Phillips Hughes, a pioneer in women's education.
Hughes left her teaching post at Cheltenham Ladies' College to become the first woman student to take first-class honours at Cambridge University. In 1885 she was appointed as the first principal of the Cambridge Training College for Women, which was set up to train educated women as teachers. She was instrumental in this venture being a great success and the college was later named Hughes Hall in her honour.
In 1899, she retired to Barry in Wales, from where, she carried on campaigning for improvements in secondary education and undertook lecture tours to America, Europe and Tokyo. She was an active member of the Association for Promoting the Education of Girls in Wales and wrote numerous articles and pamphlets. In 1920, Hughes was the only woman on the committee which founded the University of Wales.
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