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Girton College

college of the University of Cambridge
Organization College Of The University Of Cambridge Q797846
Girton College
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Facts

20 properties

Identity

Instance of
college of the University of Cambridge, university building, charitable organization[5][6]
Official website
www.girton.cam.ac.uk[15]
Native label
Girton College[25]

Status and dates

Inception
October 16, 1869[13]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 1869-10-16 uk_ccuk 2010-08-18 edition 2026-10-01 · ogl-3.0 ↗

Location

Country
United Kingdom[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 52.229°, 0.084°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
South Cambridgeshire, Cambridge[2][3]

Financials

Employees
213 (180–213, n=7)[16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
Total revenue
17.3M (10.1M–17.3M, n=10)[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]

People

Founder
Emily Davies, Barbara Bodichon, Henrietta Stanley, Baroness Stanley of Alderley[8][9][10]

Relations

Part of
University of Cambridge[12]
More facts +9
Architect
Alfred Waterhouse[7]
Bequest income
878k (2.0k–3.0M, n=6)[48][49]
Described by source
The Nuttall Encyclopædia[23]
Donations
5.1M (2.0M–6.9M, n=10)[38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47]
Heritage designation
Grade II* listed building[24]
Historic county
Cambridgeshire[37]
Named after
Girton[11]
Number of volunteers
+63[36]
OS grid reference
TL4245060932[14]
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 27
ISNI
0000000122541068
VIAF cluster ID
128710344
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n86130178
GND ID
62624-7
ARCHON code
271
Art UK venue ID
girton-college-university-of-cambridge-7161
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
12147945k
British Listed Buildings ID
101331334
Charity Commission no.
1137541
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Girton-College
FES digital collections entity ID
382804
Facebook username
GirtonCollege
Show all 27 identifiers +15
Freebase ID
/m/02bvc5
IdRef ID
090296397
Instagram username
girtoncollege
J9U entity ID
987007261744705171
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
86585214
National Heritage List for England number
1331334
Open Funder Registry funder ID
501100000621
Parks & Gardens UK record ID
4050
Quora topic ID
Girton-College-Cambridge
Ringgold ID
61442
SNARC ID
Visé
Topic's main category
Category:Girton College, Cambridge
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
36523
WhatDoTheyKnow organisation ID
girton_college_cambridge
Yale LUX ID
group/81bba1a5-0d71-44e0-ab31-cd7b66d179ac
📚 Sources · 1
  • uk_ccuk as of 2026-10-01 · may be stale · 1 statement · ogl-3.0 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Charity Commission for England and Wales). Register data: registered and removed charities, their registrations, finances and classifications. charity_trustee is internal-only (persons); no onward redistribution of that table.

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Companies House company IDP2622
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Source
uk_ccuk
Edition
20261001 · as of 2026-10-01 · newer edition 20261112 landed
Licence
ogl-3.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
Notable alumni 129
Margrethe II of Denmark, Sarojini Naidu, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Arianna Huffington, Hertha Ayrton, Joan Robinson, Annie Scott Dill Maunder, Emma Donoghue +121 more
Employees / affiliates 17
Mary Cartwright, Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, Marilyn Strathern, Bertha Swirles, Edith Rebecca Saunders, Phyllis Nicolson, Barbara Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger, Bertha Phillpotts +9 more
Founder 3
Barbara Bodichon, Emily Davies, Henrietta Stanley, Baroness Stanley of Alderley
Instance of 2
charitable organization, college of the University of Cambridge
Architect 1
Alfred Waterhouse
Category for alumni of educational institution 1
Category:Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge
Country 1
United Kingdom
Described by source 1
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
South Cambridgeshire
Named after 1
Girton
Part of 1
University of Cambridge
SNARC ID 1
Visé
Topic's main category 1
Category:Girton College, Cambridge
← Archives at 1
Barbara Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger
← Category combines topics 1
Category:Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Girton College, Cambridge
← Has works in the collection 1
Ida Baumann
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Summary

Girton College is a college of the University of Cambridge[1].

Related Entities

Annie Scott Dill Maunder Arianna Huffington Barbara Bodichon charitable organization Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Hertha Ayrton Joan Robinson Karen Spärck Jones Margaret Marrs Margrethe II of Denmark Mary Cartwright Sarojini Naidu United Kingdom Ursula Martin

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  34. [35] ↑ . Charity Commission Register of Charities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  47. [48] ↑ . Charity Commission Register of Charities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  48. [49] ↑ . Charity Commission Register of Charities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 19w ago · Printstream · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Heritage designation → Grade II* listed building
    Architect → Alfred Waterhouse
    Described by source → The Nuttall Encyclopædia
    Number of volunteers → 63
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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