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this money, instead of being paid to the college, was "given 

 in on account to the state," apparently in 1643, and the 

 treasurer of the college thus being relieved of all respon- 

 sibility in accounting for the fund, and other confusing cir- 

 cumstances having also arisen, in the course of time it 

 was forgotten, until by the investigations of Mr. Davis 

 the Corporation became apprised of the facts, when they 

 promptly set aside $5000 for the purpose of reestablishing 

 the Lady Mowlson Scholarship. This took place just at the 

 time when the name for " X College " was under discussion, 

 and the discovery that the first scholarship at Harvard was 

 given by a woman suggested the idea of christening the 

 new college for women after her. The maiden name of Lady 

 Mowlson was Anne Radcliffe. In 1600 she was married to 

 Sir Thomas Mowlson, later Lord Mayor of London, in the 

 church of St. Christopher le Stocks in London, which occu- 

 pied the site of the present Bank of England. Their only 

 child was a daughter, who died in infancy. Lady Mowlson 

 died in 1661, after a widowhood of twenty-three years, 

 and was buried beside her husband in the vault beneath 

 the church where they had been married. Practically all 

 that is known of her beyond these facts is that in May, 

 1644, she made a contribution toward a fund to be sent 

 to the Scottish army in the north, which not long after 

 won the battle of Marston Moor. From this donation 

 and that to the college in Massachusetts we may see in 

 what way her sympathies turned, and may infer that she 

 was alive to the religious and political interests of her coun- 

 try. The suggestion that her name be given to the Annex 

 was made by Mrs. Agassiz at a meeting of the Council. "It 

 seems appropriate, " she said, "to name the first woman's 



