Lucy Cavendish

This article is about the advocate for women's education. For the Cambridge college named after her, see Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.

Lucy Cavendish
Cavendish around the time of her marriage
Born
Lucy Caroline Lyttelton

(1841-09-05)5 September 1841
Hagley Hall, Worcestershire, England
Died22 April 1925(1925-04-22) (aged 83)
Penshurst, Kent, England
Spouse
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(m. 1864; died 1882)​
FatherGeorge Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton
RelativesLyttelton family

Lucy Caroline Cavendish (née Lyttelton; 5 September 1841 – 22 April 1925), also known as Lady Frederick Cavendish, was an English pioneer of women's education.

A daughter of George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton, she married into another aristocratic family, the Cavendishes, in 1864. Eighteen years later her husband, Lord Frederick Cavendish, was murdered in Dublin by Irish republicans (a victim of the Phoenix Park murders). After his death she devoted much of her time to the cause of girls' and women's education, for which she was honoured in her lifetime with an honorary degree, and posthumously when, in 1965, the University of Cambridge named its first postgraduate college for women after her.

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