Manchester Association of Cambridge University Women: Recent Events

Autumn Meeting 2018

The AGM was held in October at Withington Girls’ School, Manchester. After reports from the Chair, Treasurer and Secretary, there were elections to the committee and news from several colleges. The meeting was followed by a talk by the Secretary, Catherine Bankes (Chadwick, NC 1961) about the history of MACUW. Although there are Minutes only from 1946, the history goes back much further and Catherine had found interesting items from college records going back to soon after the Cambridge Women’s colleges were founded.

Spring Meeting 2019

At MACUW’s 73^rd Annual dinner held on 22 March, the speakers were:

Corinna Ferguson, an English graduate of St John’s College, who is a barrister and part-time tribunal Judge. She talked about her career, including working in-house at Liberty. She has also been an assistant to Supreme Court Judge, Baroness Hale, a Girton alumna.

Vivien Gardner, Emerita Professor of Drama at Manchester University, whose particular expertise covers the period 1890 – 1920. She entertained us with stories of the 5^th Marquess of Anglesey, who resided at Plas Newydd and set up his own theatre company there. He like do perform dances in females clothing and went bankrupt before dying at an early age. The succeeding Marquesses erased most of the evidence of his activities at Plas Newydd, which is now open to the public through the National Trust.