Rachel Scott (women's education reformer)

Rachel Scott (born Rachel Susan Cook; 8 March 1848 – 27 November 1905) was a Scottish-born advocate for women's education and a prominent figure in Manchester's late 19th-century education reform movement. One of the earliest women to attend the institution that later became Girton College, Cambridge, she achieved honors in the Classical Tripos at a time when women's access to higher education was limited. After her marriage to journalist C. P. Scott, she became an organizer, speaker, and administrator in Manchester's growing network of girls' and women's schools.