Elizabeth Phillips Hughes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Elizabeth Phillips Hughes

Welsh scholar, teacher, and promoter of women's education

Date of Birth: 12-Jul-1851

Place of Birth: Carmarthen, Wales, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 19-Dec-1925

Profession: pedagogue

Nationality: Wales

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Elizabeth Phillips Hughes (12 July 1851 – 19 December 1925) was a Welsh scholar, teacher, and promoter of women's education.
She used the bardic name Merch Myrddin. She was born in Carmarthenshire, and was the sister of Methodist reformer Hugh Price Hughes.
She had little education as a child, but later attended a private school in Cheltenham, eventually becoming a teacher at Cheltenham Ladies' College.
She also attended Newnham College, Cambridge, becoming the first woman in the university to take first-class honours.In 1884, she was appointed Principal of the Cambridge Training College for Women, later Hughes Hall, which was renamed in her honour.
In 1899, however, she left Cambridge for good, returning to Wales where she continued to campaign for better secondary education.
She was the only woman on the committee which drafted the charter of the University of Wales, and in 1920, she received an honorary degree from that university.