Annie Leigh Hobson Broughton (1908 in Norfolk, Virginia – September 19, 2005, in Charleston, South Carolina) was an academic administrator and advocate for women's opportunities in higher education.

Annie Leigh Hobson earned an AB (1930) and MA (1936) from Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr College is a women's liberal arts college located in Bryn Mawr, a community in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, ten miles west of Philadelphia. The name "Bryn Mawr" means "big hill" in Welsh....

, with both degrees in the field of Latin. She taught Latin at Concord Academy and the Baldwin School, and freshman Latin at Bryn Mawr before becoming the Director of Admissions and Dean of Freshmen at Bryn Mawr. She became dean of freshmen at The Woman's College of Duke University

Duke University

Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...

, and she retired from Duke in 1971.

Annie Leigh Hobson was the widow of the esteemed Latinist Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton

Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton

Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton was a Canadian classical scholar and leading Latin prosopographer of the twentieth century. He is especially noted for his definitive three-volume work, Magistrates of the Roman Republic ....

 and mother of T. Alan Broughton

T. Alan Broughton

T. Alan Broughton was born in June 1936 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. He is a poet, and an amateur pianist. He began teaching writing in 1966 at the University of Vermont until he retired in 2001. He has attended Harvard University, Philips Exeter Academy, and the Juilliard School of Music...

, the poet, and Margaret Tenney.