Elizabeth Wordsworth
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Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth was the great-niece of the poet William Wordsworth.
She was the Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from 1878-1909, when she founded St Hugh's Hall as a college for poor female undergraduates, on Norham Gardens in North Oxford.
This was later established as St Hugh's College, Oxford, which is today the largest college in Oxford University.
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