City of Leeds Training College

[3] A competition for Leeds architects to design a main building and seven halls of residence or hostels, two for men and five for women, resulted in 27 submissions.

The other hostels were named after prominent Yorkshire people, Cavendish, Fairfax, Brontë, Caedmon, Macaulay, Leighton and Priestley.

[6][1] During the First World War the principal matron of the 2nd Northern General Hospital based at Beckett Park, Leeds, was Euphemia Steele Innes.

[12] The college premises were again used as a military hospital in the Second World War and the students were moved out of the city to Scarborough, returning to Beckett Park at the end of 1945.

Its chancellor, Sir Bob Murray, said "We will be very proud to adopt a new name for our University which is so closely linked to the location and birthplace of two of our major founding colleges.

"[15] The college's original three-storey halls of residence and teaching and administration building built around a green lawn known as the Acre were designed by G. W. Atkinson and completed in 1912 in a Wrenaissance style in red brick with ashlar gritstone dressings.