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Annette Akroyd"s father William Akroyd was a Unitarian industrialist associated with the establishment of the Bedford College, London in 1849, where she completed her study in 1863.
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In October 1872 she sailed for British India. This dispute spilled into the native press and had its impact on the Bethune School. "Mr. Senator had a strong prejudice against university education, in fact, against what is generally regarded as high education, of women.
They did not object to their university education and were not disposed to make much difference in point of education between men and women.
The successful manner in which they carried on the work of this school under Mission Akroyd, subsequently Mistress Beveridge, attracted much public notice and was highly praised by the officers of Government.
This school did excellent work for many years and was subsequently conducted under the name of the Banga Mahila Vidyalaya and was at last amalgamated with the Bethune College for ladies, to which it furnished some of its most distinguished students.".
