Amy Bulley

Amy Bulley
Born	20 April, 1852 New Brighton
Died	16 November, 1939 Bushey
Nationality	United Kingdom
Education	Girton College and Newnham College
Employer	Manchester High School for Girls
Spouse(s)	Joseph Brooke

Amy Bulley or Agnes Amy Bulley; Amy Brooke (20 April, 1852 – 16 November, 1939) was an English promoter of women's education. She was an early student at both Girton College and Newnham College and one of the first two students to sit the tripos examinations in Cambridge. She entered education where she helped to create a "women's department" at what would be Manchester University. She wrote about women's rights and the growth of "white blouse" employment.

Bulley was born in New Brighton near Wrexham in 1852. She was one fourteen children and one of the three daughters who were unusually sent to college. Her two sisters went to the newly founded Newnham College whilst Amy went to Girton College. After three years she moved to Newnham College where she could join her sisters and complete a fourth year. The principal of Newnham, Anne Jemima Clough, was a friend of their parents and she had persuaded Mr and Mary Rachel Bulley to send their daughters south. Bulley and Mary Paley were the first women to take the tripos examination at Cambridge University. The people who delivered Paley and Bulley's papers were Henry Sidgwick, John Venn, Sedley Taylor and Paley's future husband Alfred Marshall. She took the Tripos in 1874, and had she been a man then she would have been awarded a second class degree but this was denied her because she was a woman. They sat the exams in Professor Benjamin Hall Kennedy's drawing room. Paley described how Professor Kennedy would sometimes doze whilst invigilating. Paley created a sketch of Sedley Taylor delivering the exam papers.

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