Until she was in her mid fifties she lived with different family members in Somerset as first her father, then her mother and an elder brother died.

[1] In the early 1870s Bishop Otter College in Chichester was relaunched as a teacher training institute for women due to the activism of Louisa Hubbard after the Elementary Education Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict.

[3] The Chichester diocesan board of education placed an advert in The Guardian for a Lady Superintendent who would answer to a male cleric.

[1] In 1886 Lord Cross led the Royal Commission on Elementary Education Acts and[5] in June of the first year Trevor was called to give evidence.

[1] She made clear that she was opposed to the idea of pupil-teachers, governesses who did not use corporal punishment and denominational teaching.

[6] Trevor's position was undermined by the college chaplain who was given complete authority for religious instruction.