Mary Ewart

Mary Anne Ewart (1830 – 19 February 1911) was a British patron of higher education for women. She funded Newnham College and Bedford College, London.

Life Ewart was born in London and was baptised on 30 December 1830 at St George's, Hanover Square. Her parents were first cousins; her mother was Mary Anne (born Lee) and her father was the politician William Ewart. Her grandfather was also godfather to William Ewart Gladstone.

Ewart is noted as a supporter of women's higher education. She was a source of funds and a governor of Newnham College and of Bedford College in London.

She also created and ran a teachers' education loan fund to allow aspiring teachers to gain an education.

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 main house design also included details of a gardener's cottage.

Death and legacy Ewart died in London in 1911.