10 Facts About Anne Clough

1.

Anne Jemima Clough was an early English suffragist and a promoter of higher education for women.

2.

James Butler Clough was a younger son of a landed gentry family that had been living at Plas Clough in Denbighshire since 1567.

3.

Anne Clough worked as a volunteer in a Liverpool charity school and became determined to run a school of her own.

4.

Anne Clough subsequently worked at the Borough Road School and the Home and Colonial School Society.

5.

The youngest daughter, Blanche Athena Anne Clough, would follow in her aunt's footsteps and herself become a notable educationalist.

6.

Anne Clough gave evidence to a Royal Commission on secondary schooling, based on her own teaching experience.

7.

Henry Sidgwick invited Anne Clough to take charge of the first hostel and its first five students, setting up in Regent Street, Cambridge, in 1871.

8.

Anne Clough was cared for at the end of her life by her niece Blanche Athena Clough and her friend Edith Sharpley who was the classics lecturer.

9.

Two portraits of Anne Clough are at Newnham College, one by Sir William Blake Richmond, the other by James Jebusa Shannon.

10.

Anne Clough's legacy is marked in Clough Hall and the Clough memorial gates at Newnham College, a stained glass window at Liverpool Cathedral, the Hope Street sculpture "A Case History" in Liverpool.