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Homerton College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. [3] Its first premises were acquired in Homerton , London in 1768, by an informal gathering of Protestant dissenters with origins in the seventeenth century.
Homerton College was known as King's Head Academy when it moved in 1768/69 from Plaisterers' Hall, London, to a large house on the north side of the high street of Homerton, in the parish of Hackney, close to London, in which they sought to base all their teaching.
Homerton, which was first founded in the eighteenth century as a dissenting academy (and later teacher training college), attained full college status in 2010. Six of the "new" colleges (Churchill, Fitzwilliam, Girton, Lucy Cavendish, Murray Edwards and St Edmund's) are located on Castle Hill and are thus sometimes referred to as "hill colleges".
Most of the colleges forming the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford are paired into sister colleges across the two universities. [1] The extent of the arrangement differs from case to case, but commonly includes the right to dine at one's sister college, the right to book accommodation there, the holding of joint events between JCRs and invitations to May balls.
She became principal of Homerton College, Cambridge in 1903. [5] She appointed female lecturers, and became the first female president of the Training College Association in 1916. [ 6 ] She retired from Homerton in 1935.
Homerton (/ ˈ h ɒ m ər t ən / HOM-ər-tən) is an area in London, England, in the London Borough of Hackney.It is bordered to the west by Hackney Central, to the north by Lower Clapton, in the east by Hackney Wick, Leyton and by South Hackney to the south.