Louisa Benson was a Yorkshire born woman. She studied at the Notre Dame Training College in Liverpool, graduating with distinction in 1865. A convert to Catholicism, Louisa entered the religious order of the Loreto Sisters in Dublin in 1868, taking the religious name of Hilda. Mother Hilda became principal of the National School in Rathfarnham … Continue reading Mother Hilda Benson – Women who shaped and built Ballarat