The Archive · 1922

Death of Miss Constance Jones

THE. FORMER MISTRESS OF GIRTON

We regret to announce the death of Miss Emily Elizabeth Constance Jones, D. Lift., late Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge, which' {occurred on Monday, April 17 at Weston-super-Mare.

The daughter of J. Jones, M. D., J. P., of Langstone Court, Hereford shire.. and Llaneayo House, Monmouth, she was educated at home, at Miss Robinson's, Alstone Court, Cheltenham, and at Girton. At Cambridge she became a pupil of the late Professor Sidgwick, and obtained a first in the Moral Sciences Tripos of 1880. Four years later she returned to Girton Resident Lecturer in Moral Sciences, and in 1896 the post of Vice-Mistress' was added. In_1903, on the retirement of Miss Welsh. she was elected Mistress, and held the office for 13 years. The college owes a great deal to her powers of administration and organization.

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