work. Bedford College's old premises in Regent's Park is now the home of Regent's University London. Notable alumni Rosetta Delisle, Social Worker Louise Doris Adams (died 1965), president of the Mathematical Association Mary Bridges-Adams (1854–1939), English educationalist Shahidul Alam (born 1955), Bangladeshi photographer, writer and curator Chris Aldridge, English BBC Radio 4 newsreader Ajahn Amaro (born 1956), Theravadin Buddhist monk, and abbot of the Amaravati Buddhist Monastery Catherine Ashton (born 1956), High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (European Union) Janet Backhouse (1938–2004), English expert on illuminated manuscripts David Bellamy (1933–2019), English botanist and television presenter Helen Caroline Bentwich (1892–1972), English social activist and politician Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), pioneer Anglo-American female physician Daphne Blundell (1916–2004), British naval officer Joane Bowes, MBE (1911–1981), Biochemist D.Sc. for work in leather and collagen Mary Brazier (1904–1995), American neuroscientist Sophie Bryant (1850–1922), Anglo-Irish mathematician and feminist Anne Buck (1910–2005), British cultural historian and curator of dress Ada Buisson (1839–1866), English author and novelist Margaret Busby, Gold Coast-born publisher and writer Waveney Bushell, Guyanese-born educational psychologist Dinah Craik (1826–1887), English novelist and poet Ilse Crawford, English interior designer Florence Nightingale David (1909–1993), English and American statistician Evelyn Denington, Baroness Denington (1907–1998), English politician Peggy Duff (1910–1981), British political activist, organiser of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Edith Durham (1863–1944), English traveller, artist and writer George Eliot (1819–1880), English novelist Christopher Elrington (1930–2009), English historian Susan E. Evans, English palaeontologist and herpetologist Penelope Farmer (born 1939), English children's novelist Mary Fels (1863-1953), German-born American philanthropist, suffragist, Georgist Dame Janet Finch (born 1946), English Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Social Relations at Keele University 1995–2010 Norvela Forster (1931–1993), English businesswoman and politician Jane Gardam (born 1928), English novelist and children's writer Miriam Violet Griffith (1911-1989) electrical engineer, technical author, expert in early heat pumps Jean Hanson (1919–1973), English biophysicist and zoologist Jean Henderson (1899–1997), English barrister and Liberal Party politician Jean Hillier, English town and country planning professor Edith Humphrey (1875–1978), English inorganic chemist Eva Ibbotson (née Wiesner, 1925–2010), Austro-English children's author Alison Jaggar (born 1942), Anglo-American philosopher and feminist professor Nick Kent (born 1951), English rock critic Dudley Knowles (1947–2014), English political philosopher and professor Jean Langhorne, British biologist Judith Ledeboer (1901–1990), Dutch-English architect Alice Lee (1858–1939), English mathematician Kathleen Lonsdale (1903–1971), Anglo-Irish crystallographer Adelaide Manning (1828–1905), writer and editor Angela Mason (born 1944), English civil servant and gay activist Gerda Mayer (born