Portrait of founders & benefactors of Bedford College for Women
- Title
- Portrait of founders & benefactors of Bedford College for Women
- From the exhibition held at the event on 29 June 2013 to install the University's first Chancellor and to award honorary fellowships.
- RULAP40
- Creator
- Regent's University London
- Date
- No date
- Abstract
- Four portraits of founders & benefactors of Bedford College for Women, London : Elizabeth Jesser Reid founder of Bedford College; Erasmus Darwin, its first chairman, William Shaen, co-founder, and Anna Swanwick who played a prominent role in the establishment of Bedford College. A close friend of Elizabeth Jesser Reid, Swanwick and her mother were among the first group of Lady Visitors, whose members constituted the original Ladies’ Committee (a governing body) from 1849 at Bedford College for Women alongside figures such as Lady Romilly, Jane Martineau, and Eliza Bostock.
- Format
- 30 cm x 20 cm
- 1 photograph : black and white on foam core
- Publisher
- Regent's University London
- Language
- English
- Type
- Archive
- Item sets
- Archive
