Caroline Croom Robertson

Caroline Anna Croom Robertson, born Caroline Anna Crompton (1838 – 29 May 1892) was a British suffragist and college administrator. She was the secretary and later bursar of Girton College, Cambridge - the first university college in England to admit women.

Life Robertson was born in Liverpool in 1838 as the fourth daughter of Justice Charles Crompton. She was named Caroline after her mother. Her large family included Mary who married the theologian John Llewelyn Davies, a member of the family of the women's education activist Emily Davies and the positivist Henry Crompton.

In 1872 she married George Croom Robertson who became her husband and partner. He was the Grote professor of mind and logic at University College, London. He was a collaborator with Alexander Bain and their friend John Stuart Mill.

She understood money and finance so she applied for the position of secretary of Girton College when it was created in 1877. Girton was the first university college in England to admit women. The job was to assist Emily Davies who had co-founded the college. She was buried in the same churchyard as her father and later that year her husband joined her.