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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 reéstablishing 
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 
