Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve
Principal of Newnham College (1992-2006)
The Principal’s Residence, Newnham College

Onora O’Neill is a Professor of Philosophy, President of the British Academy and Chair of the Nuffield Foundation. She is a moral philosopher and considered a leading authority on the works of Immanuel Kant.

Newnham College was founded in 1871, initially with only five students. The College now has about 620 students and is one of three in Cambridge for women only.

Dorothy Hodgkin who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 was a graduate student at Newnham for two years. Iris Murdoch, Sylvia Plath, Jane Goodall, Margaret Drabble, Rosalyn Franklin and Emma Thompson also attended the College.