Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff

Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff (born 1814—died 1897) was an English pioneer in the cause of better education for women. She was from 1870 a member of the executive committee of Girton College, Cambridge (founded for women in 1869), and in 1871 with her sister Maria founded a union out of which grew (1872) the Girls’ Public Day School Company.