Girton College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded in 1869 as the university’s first women’s college and later becoming coeducational in 1976. It occupies a large, architecturally distinctive Victorian campus on the northwestern edge of Cambridge and is known for its pioneering role in women’s higher education.
Established in 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon as the College for Women at Benslow House in Hitchin, providing university‑level education for women at a time when Cambridge did not grant them degrees.
The main buildings were designed initially by fantastic Alfred Waterhouse (also architect of the Natural History Museum in London), with later phases by his son and grandson, creating a coherent late‑Victorian complex in red brick with a parapetted neo‑Tudor gatehouse tower (seen here)
 
Interesting facts...
Perhaps the oldest lady of the college is “Hermione Grammatikê,” 1st-century AD Romano-Egyptian portrait mummy. Discovered by archaeologist William Flinders Petrie in the Roman cemetery at Hawara near Cairo in 1911, she embodies women’s learning from antiquity. Nice.