Anne Jemima Clough (1820–92)

Educationalist and college principal. Set up and worked in various schools from the late 1840s. In 1867 became a founder member of the North of England Council for Promoting the Higher Education of Women; secretary, 1867–70; president 1873–4. First principal, Newnham College, Cambridge, 1879–92. (ODNB).