1840–1932

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Born: Cir­ca Au­gust 1840, Har­row, Mid­dle­sex, Eng­land.

Died: No­vem­ber 3, 1932, Head­ing­ton, Ox­ford­shire, Eng­land.

Pseudonym: Grant Lloyd.

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Elizabeth was the daugh­ter of hym­nist Chris­to­pher Words­worth and Su­san­na Hat­ley Frere, and great-niece of po­et Will­iam Words­worth.

In 1879, she be­came the found­ing prin­ci­pal of La­dy Mar­ga­ret Hall, Ox­ford. In 1886, she used an in­her­it­ance from her fa­ther to found St Hugh’s Col­lege, in north Ox­ford.

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