Miss Kate Harding Street taught first at the Clergy Daughters’ School in Casterton, Cumbria (near Kirby Lonsdale) from 1865 to 1869, and then at Grey Coats Hospital in Westminster. In 1881, she was appointed the first Headmistress of the newly founded Perse School for Girls in Cambridge. Miss Street was also one of the nine founders of Cambridge University’s first graduate college for women, then called the Cambridge Training College (now Hughes Hall), and remained on its committees and Board of Trustees after its establishment in 1885.