The Blue Plaque is located at 6 St Martins, Leicester:
Agnes Archer Evans, nee Kilgour, (1851-1924) was responsible, along with Anna Chrysogon Beale, for raising the standard of secondary education for girls at the Belmont House School in Leicester. She had been headmistress of the junior school at Cheltenham Ladies College.
After her marriage to William Evans in 1895, she continued her involvement in the field of girls' and women's education, becoming a governor of Wyggeston Girls' School and Vaughan Working Men's College.
In addition, Agnes was an active suffragist, being the founding treasurer of the Leicester and Leicestershire Women's Suffrage Society in 1887. The plaque is situated on the building where she lived for some time following her marriage.
