Ko te whare wānanga i whakatūria i te tīmatanga ko te Cambridge Training College for Women, ā, i tīmata ki ngā ākonga 14 i roto i tētahi whare iti i Newnham e kiia nei ko Crofton Cottage. Ko te tumuaki tuatahi ko Elizabeth Phillips Hughes (1851-1925), i noho i te tūranga mai i 1885 ki 1899. I te 1895, ka neke te whare wānanga ki tētahi whare motuhake, i hangaia e te kaihoahoa a William Fawcett, e titiro ana ki te Fenner's Cricket Ground - e noho tonu ana hei whare wānanga nui a tae noa mai ki tēnei rā. Ko tētahi o ngā ākonga tuatahi, ko Molly Thomas, i kōrero i te wheako o te akomanga tuatahi o ngā ākonga i Rānana A o te 1880s, i whakaputaina i raro i tōna ingoa marena, ko M.V. Hughes. Pātai: He aha te ingoa marena o Molly Thomass?
Ko M.V. Hughes