of Girls in Wales. She helped to found a teachers' college in Barry in 1914. She was the only woman on the committee which drafted the charter of the University of Wales, and in 1920, she received an honorary degree from that university. Personal life Hughes was an avid mountain climber; she climbed the Matterhorn at age 48. She died in 1925, aged 74 years, in Barry. In 2018, her birthplace in Carmarthen was marked with a blue plaque. She was recently featured in advertisements for a Cambridge fundraising campaign. References 1851 births 1925 deaths People from Carmarthen Hudhes, Elizabeth Phillips Feminist studies scholars Welsh feminists Welsh schoolteachers Hughes Hall, Cambridge British women in World War I