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. The college was established in 1874 as Wandsworth College, a women's

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, by the Roman Catholic

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, an order of

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religious women who settled at

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in 1850, having first arrived in

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in 1846. The college moved to Roehampton and was renamed in honour of Mother Janet Stuart and Mother Mabel Digby in 1946. The college became coeducational in 1971. In 1975, the college became part of the Roehampton Institute of Higher Education, which became Roehampton University in 2004. Currently, approximately 2,000 of Roehampton's 8,000 students, are assigned to Digby Stuart College with about 450 living on the campus.

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