Documents and correpondence relating to the educational activities of Prebendary Joseph Lloyd Brereton, founder of Cavendish College, Cambridge (1873 to 1892) which later became Homerton College (1894). The collection includes a selection of sources for the history of Cavendish College as well as records of Brereton's scheme for the education of girls through the Graduated County Schools Association. The Association was in existence between 1881 and 1887 to enable self-supporting schools and colleges for girls and women. Brereton devoted much of his life to setting up affordable middle-class and agricultural education under a county-based structure. He founded eleven schools in total, the most successful of which were in Barnard Castle and West Buckland, where he served as Rector.