Scope and Contents 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...

Scope and Contents Letters written by Third Earl Hugh Fortescue to Joseph Lloyd Brereton concerning educational proposals/activities, political and rural issues and personal matters. The pair had a life-long friendship having met as neighbours in West Buckland where they opened a proprietory boarding school for farmer's sons. Fortescue was a considerable landowner, concerned with the welfare of rural England and sympathetic to the unsectarian religious views of Brereton. He became Brereton's first convert...