Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge

Lucy Cavendish College
University of Cambridge
Lucy Cavendish College Bertram, De Brye and New Build view from the courtyard
Lucy Cavendish College Bertram, De Brye and New Build view from the courtyard
Lucy Cavendish College heraldic shield
Arms of Lucy Cavendish College
Scarf colours: eight alternating stripes of black and blue of varying width, with wide black and narrow blue stripes transitioning towards narrow black and wide blue stripes across the face of the scarf
LocationLady Margaret Road (map)
Coordinates52°12′40″N 0°06′36″E / 52.2112°N 0.1101°E / 52.2112; 0.1101 (Lucy Cavendish College)
AbbreviationLC[1]
Established1965
Named afterLucy Cavendish
GenderMixed from 2021 onwards[2]
Age restrictionAll ages from 2020[2]
Sister collegeRegent's Park College, Oxford
PresidentMadeleine Atkins
Undergraduates367 (2022–23)
Postgraduates486 (2022–23)
Endowment£17.6m (2021)[3]
Websitewww.lucy.cam.ac.uk
Students' unionwww.lucy.cam.ac.uk/college-community/place-live-and-study/students-union
Map
Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge is located in Central Cambridge
Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge
Location in Central Cambridge
Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge is located in Cambridge
Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge
Location in Cambridge
Lucy Caroline Cavendish, a pioneer of women's education

Lucy Cavendish College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

The college is named in honour of Lucy Cavendish (1841–1925), who campaigned for the reform of women's education.[4]

  1. ^ University of Cambridge (6 March 2019). "Notice by the Editor". Cambridge University Reporter. 149 (Special No 5): 1. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  2. ^ a b "History | Lucy Cavendish".
  3. ^ "Annual reports and Financial Statements for Lucy Cavendish College". Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  4. ^ Renfrew, Jane M. "Who was Lucy Cavendish?". Rooms of Our Own – Lucy Cavendish College. Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 1 March 2012.