DAVIES, SARAH EMILY British educa tionalist, sister of John Llewellyn Davies (q.v.), was born at Southampton on April 22, 1830. She was educated at home, and later identified herself with the movement for the higher educa tion of women, being also one of a group of women who, about 1858, were discussing the question of women's suffrage at the Kensington Society. In 1862 she became secretary to the com mittee which was formed to procure the admission of women to university examinations. In 1867, Miss Davies, with the help of Mme. Bodichon (Barbara Leigh Smith) and others, organized a women's college at Hitchin, which was subsequently transferred to Cambridge as Girton college in 1873. From 1870 to 1873 she was a member of the London School Board, and withdrew to become mistress of Girton college, Cambridge, a post which she held for two years. In 1873 she was elected a life governor of University college, London, and in 1882 became honorary secre tary of Girton college, retiring in 1904. She died in London on July 13, 1921. She published The Higher Education of Women (1886), and Thoughts on Some Questions Relating to Women 186o-1go8 (191o).
See B. Stephen, Emily Davies and Girton College (1927).