When she was in her late fifties she heard of the American women who were being trained as missionaries in a college started by Mary Lyon.

[3] She decided to copy that initiative when she was introduced by the Petrie family to a Constance Maynard and her group[4] who persuaded her to fund a new women's college in London instead.

[2] Dudin Brown was a frequent visitor to Westfield and she continued to make substantial contributions, including funds for a permanent building, Kidderpore House, in 1890.

[5] Brown died aged 95 at the Norfolk Hotel in South Kensington on the 30th June 1917, where she had lived in the final years of her life.

She had said that her most pleasing work was funding Westfield College and she was buried in Hampstead Cemetery, just a short walk away on the other side of the Finchley Road.