Wordsworth, Elizabeth (1840–1932)

English academic and author who helped further higher education for women at the University of Oxford. In 1878, she was appointed as the first principal of the women's college Lady Margaret Hall, a post she occupied for 30 years. She was also instrumental in founding another Oxford college for women, St Hugh's, in 1886.

Born in Harrow, Wordsworth was a grand-niece of the poet William Wordsworth. Her own writings include Glimpses of the Past, 1912, and Poems and Plays, 1931.