Mary Anne Ewart

Mary Anne Ewart (1830 – 19 February 1911) was a British patron of higher education for women.

Her parents were first cousins; her mother was Mary Anne (born Lee) and her father was the politician William Ewart.

[3] In the 1880s, the architect Philip Speakman Webb drew up designs in the Arts and Crafts style for a house for her, Coneyhurst, at Ewhurst, Surrey.

The sculpture for the cafe was based on key items taken from the college's archive, recreated in brass and coated steel.

Ewart was included because the founding Principal, Anne Jemima Clough, refers to her in an 1890s letter as one of a few friends "specially connected with the College".