Girton College, Cambridge

Girton College
Girton College
University of Cambridge
	Girton College during the 1890s
	Arms of Girton College
Location	Huntingdon Road (map)
Coordinates	52°13′43″N 0°05′02″E / 52.2286°N 0.0839°E
Abbreviation	G
Motto in English	Better is wisdom than weapons of war
Founders	Emily Davies; Barbara Bodichon;
Established	16 October 1869
Named after	Girton village
Previous names	College for Women (until 1871)
Sister college	Somerville College, Oxford
Mistress	Elisabeth Kendall
Undergraduates	534 (2022-23)
Postgraduates	410 (2022-23)
Endowment	£49.2m (2018)
Visitor	Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond
Website	www.girton.cam.ac.uk
JCR	www.girtonjcr.co.uk
MCR	www-mcr.girton.cam.ac.uk
Boat club	www-gcbc.girton.cam.ac.uk
Map
	Location in Cambridgeshire

Girton College is one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge.^[4] The college was established in 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon 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 on the outskirts of the village of Girton, about 2+1⁄2 miles (4 kilometres) northwest of the university town, comprises 33 acres (13 hectares) of land. In a typical Victorian red-brick design, most was built by architect Alfred Waterhouse between 1872 and 1887. It provides extensive sports facilities, an indoor swimming-pool, an award-winning library and a chapel with two organs. There is an accommodation annexe, known as Swirles Court, situated in the Eddington neighborhood of the North West Cambridge development. Swirles opened in 2017 and provides up to 325 ensuite single rooms for graduates, and for second-year undergraduates and above.

The college has a reputation for admitting a high number of UK state-school students, its community feel, and for musical talent. Several art collections are held on the main site, including People's Portraits, the millennial exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and an Egyptian collection containing the world's most reproduced portrait mummy.

Among Girton's notable alumni are Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, former UK Supreme Court President Lady Hale, HuffPost co-founder Arianna Huffington, the comedian/author Sandi Toksvig, the comedian/broadcaster/GP Phil Hammond, the economist Joan Robinson, and the anthropologist Marilyn Strathern, also Mistress from 1998 to 2009.

Its sister college is Somerville College, one of the two Oxford colleges to first admit women.

^ University of Cambridge (6 March 2019). "Notice by the Editor". Cambridge University Reporter. 149 (Special No 5): 1. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
^ "Annual report and Financial Statements Year ended 30 June 2018" (PDF). Girton College, Cambridge. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
^ Cite error: The named reference girton-reporter was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Walker, Timea (19 January 2022). "Girton College". www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 November 2022.

[1] University of Cambridge (6 March 2019). "Notice by the Editor". Cambridge University Reporter. 149 (Special No 5): 1. Retrieved 20 March 2019.

[Girton_College_Financial_Statement_17/18-2] "Annual report and Financial Statements Year ended 30 June 2018" (PDF). Girton College, Cambridge. Retrieved 2 January 2019.

[girton-reporter-3] Cite error: The named reference girton-reporter was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[4] Walker, Timea (19 January 2022). "Girton College". www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 November 2022.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]