Queen's College, for women (43 to 45 Harley Street, London), was established in 1848, and incorporated by royal charter in 1853. It owed its existence partly to the Governesses' Benevolent Institution and partly to a movement originated by the Rev. C. G. Nicolay, and supported by the Rev. F. D. Maurice and other King's College professors. Its Committee of Education as at first constituted included the names of Maurice, Trench, and Kingsley; of Sterndale Bennett and Hullah; of Ansted and Edward Forbes; of Mulready and Richmond. Its aim is to provide for the higher education of women, in the first place by a liberal school training, and subsequently by a six years' course of college education. The college curriculum includes the school for pupils under fourteen years of age, the preparatory class for pupils too old to be admitted to the school but too backward for the first year's classes in college, and the college course of three years for the training for the grade of 'associate,' or six years or more for that of 'fellow.' This college is self-supporting, and is at present without any endowment. The students number about 360, and are chiefly day scholars, but boarders are received by authority of the council at two adjoining houses in Harley Street.
See WOMEN'S RIGHTS; the Queen's College Calendar; Maurice's Queen's College; its Objects and Method (1848). Mrs A. Tweedie, The First College for Women (1898). — For Irish Queen's Colleges, see IRELAND, Vol. VI. p. 202.