She achieved a three-year scholarship to Girton College at Cambridge University, and in 1889, she qualified with an honours degree from Girton with a top place in mathematics. As a female student she was not, however, allowed to accept or receive her Bacherlor’s award. Read more at: https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/trailblazing-ulster-stargazer-who-was-denied-a-degree-for-being-a-woman-1-8503252