- 1881: Elizabeth attends Newnham College, Cambridge.
- 1884: She was placed in class one in the Moral Sciences Tripos examinations.
- 1885: She was chosen to be the first Head of the Cambridge Training College for Women Teachers. This was a new venture, and its success was mainly due to Elizabeth’s pioneering work.
- 1899: She retired and moved to Barry. During the following years she travelled and lectured in Europe, America and Japan.
- She continued to promote higher education for women, and was an active member of the Association for Promoting the Education of Girls in Wales.
- 1902: Elizabeth was a co-opted member of the Glamorgan Education Committee.
- She was a member of the Court of the University of Wales, and was the only woman on the committee that drafted the charter for the university.
- 1917: She was awarded an M.B.E. for the good work she had done for the British Red Cross in South Wales.
- 1920: She was given an honorary degree of LL.D. by the University of Wales.
- Cambridge University has named a college after her, Hughes Hall.
‘In 1949, when the college became a recognised institution of Cambridge University, it was renamed Hughes Hall in her honour. The college opened with fourteen students, in a cramped building, in October 1885.’ – G. H. L. Le May, ‘Hughes, Elizabeth Phillips’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography – https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-37579