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![[Girton College]](../images/g/gb_cu!gt.gif)
image by António Martins-Tuvàlkin, 17 August 2009
Girton College is – or was, rather –
unusual in that it provided a home for women studying at Cambridge University
(GB):
“Established in 1869 as the first residential College for women, Girton
occupies spacious grounds to the northwest of the centre of Cambridge. It became
mixed in 1977 with the arrival of the first male Fellows, and male
undergraduates have been admitted since 1979. The equal balance between the
numbers of men and women, amongst both the Fellowship and the students, is
matched by no other College.”
Direct links to photos showing the banner
of arms (the arms itself are shown on above page):
http://www.localsecrets.com/images/dynamicimages/girton250.jpg
http://www.twu.edu/dsc/girton_college.jpg
The image above is taken
from this Girton page:
http://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/alumni-roll/development-campaign/girtons-annual-fund.
These are composite arms, fully explained at
http://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/about/college-history/college-crest/. They
represent Emily Davies (ideal or ascribed arms: green/sinople and white/argent
colours), Barbara Bodichon (ermines), Henry Tomkinson (cross), and Henrietta
Maria, Lady Stanley (crescents). Blazon, gratefully lifted from
this source: “Quarterly Vert and Argent a cross flory countercharged a
Roundel Ermine and in the second and third quarters a Crescent Gules.”
Jan
Mertens, 30 April 2009
The image above is a variant of the banner of arms,
shown in use with white cloth for the
Argent field quarters and grey cloth for the Argent cross quarters and roundels.
António Martins-Tuvàlkin,
17 August 2009
