It lies about two miles to the northwest of Cambridge, and is the home of Cambridge University's Girton College, a pioneer in women's education, which was moved there from a previous site in Hertfordshire in 1872.
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A daughter of James Cochran Stevenson, a Liberal Member of Parliament for South Shields, Hilda Stevenson was educated at Notting Hill High School and Girton College, Cambridge where she took first class honours in the History Tripos.
The cartoon which depicted two women students of Girton College, Cambridge on their preference of a Valentine in ancient Greek rather than English, reflected the uneasiness of contemporary society about a woman with the "power and privileges" of Greek Studies at a time when classical scholarship was mostly restricted to upper-class males.
She became the Mistress of Girton College in 1922, succeeding Katharine Jex-Blake (1860-1951) who happened to be her first cousin (the daughter of her mother's sister Henrietta Cordery and Thomas Jex-Blake, sometime Headmaster of Rugby School).
Girton College is some distance from central Cambridge as a former women's college, just south of the village of Girton.