Database : School Reports, 1874 - 1952

1874

Manchester Association for Promoting the Education of Women

Patron:  The Bishop of Manchester

President:  Rev. W. J. Kennedy

Treasurer:  Mrs R. D. Darbishire

Mrs Anson, Mrs Barratt, Mrs E Behrens, Miss Bennett, Canon Birch, E H Brodie, J Chadwick, Miss Cannan, Mrs Chambers, Rev H Cottam, Canon Crane, R D Darbishire, Mr Donner, Miss Gaskell, J G Greenwood, W H Herford, O Heywood, Miss Higgins, Mrs Kennedy, Mrs Leisler, Mrs McConnel, the Dean of Manchester, Mrs Micholls, Rev A McLaren, A Nield, Mrs Ommanney, Miss Potter, Mrs Shuttleworth, Miss Woodcock, Rev R B Wright

Annual Report, January 1875

Regret at the retirement as Secretary of Miss Vernon.

The membership fee has risen from a minimum of 5s to a minimum of £5.

The Association's library is housed at Manchester High School. When the Association was founded in 1867, one of its main aims was to establish lectures but the cost of these proved to be prohibitive and they were discontinued in 1873. In Autumn 1874 they recommenced when Prof A S Wilkins gave a series of lectures on the science of language. Rev William Cunningham began a series of lectures on 12 January 1875 on economic science.

Another of the Association's main activities was holding classes in various subjects [details given]. They are now being held at the High School. Other classes are being held at Higher Broughton by permission of Rev R B Wright. Miss Cannan is the "Correspondent for the Association" and E M Brodie has given classes on Shakespeare.

An anonymous lady has provided money for financial prizes [details given] to those governesses who achieve the highest marks in the examinations which the Association conducts and has offered to pay the university fees of the two best examinees. The exams are marked by Prof Ward, Mr Toller and Mr Bentley. Details given of Mr Bentley's comments on the examinees.

Statistics given of results.

Statistics given of results.

Statistics given of results.

Lord Selborne distributed prizes and certificates at one of two public meetings.

The Committee of the Association has established a fund to pay the fees of those governesses who wish to take Cambridge Local Exams. The foundation of schools, including Manchester High School and those schools in the Public Day School Trust necessitates some "guarantee of the attainments and competency of teachers to serve in these schools." The establishment of training colleges for "Governesses of High Grade Schools" is being considered by "influential people."

The Committee stated in its last report that the Public Day School for Girls [sic] was about to open at 369 and 371 Oxford Rd, Manchester. It opened on 19 January 1874.

The school has 150 pupils, the maximum that can be taken and many applications have had to be rejected.

The teaching staff are Miss Day, seven assistant mistresses and 9 teachers of specific subjects [details given].

Last year two exhibitions have been awarded. An anonymous lady donated one for the daughter of a clergyman and this was awarded to Mary Geden. The other was awarded by Sir James Bardsley for the daughter of a doctor and this was awarded to Elizabeth Harrison. The Committee thanks Prof Wilkins and the Dean of Manchester for examining the candidates for these awards.

Edward Hecht examined the pupils who have music lessons.

Eleven pupils took the Cambridge Local Exams.

The Committee has promised that pupils will be periodically tested by "independent and competent Examiners." Two representatives of the Cambridge syndicate, Rev Stanley Walton and Rev Thomas Stevens conducted the exams. They were commended to the Committee by Rev G F Brown, the Secretary of the Syndicate.

Appeal for support from the people of Manchester.

Report on the Manchester High School for Girls by the Rev. Stanley Walton, MA, Vicar of Fenstanton and late Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and Rev T Stevens, MA, Magdalen College Cambridge.

The exams were conducted in November 1874 and 145 girls were examined.

There are 6 teachers and the Headmistress, Miss Day. [There is a footnote stating that there were, as well as Miss Day, 7 Assistant Mistresses and 9 teachers of specific subjects]

Comments made on the following subjects: English Language, French, German, Latin, History, Geography, Arithmetic, Euclid.

The main general conclusions were that pupils were weakest on subjects which they had been taught before they went to the High School and that the school?s teachers were "really great and good work."

The Manchester High School for Girls

Visitor:  Rev James Fraser, Bishop of Manchester

Treasurer:  Mr Donner

Hon Secretary:  Miss Livesey

Managing Committee

Rev B M Cowan, J G Greenwood, Rev W J Kennedy, Mrs Anson, Mr Beyer, James Chadwick, Mrs Chambers, Mrs Christie, Mr R D Darbishire, Mrs R D Darbishire, Miss Gaskell, Miss M Higgins, Mrs Micholls, Mr T D Ryder, Rev R Tonge, Prof Wilkins.

Teaching Staff

Headmistress:  Miss Day

Maths Mistress:  Miss Woodhead

Assistant Mistresses:  Miss Turnbull, Miss Sanders, Miss Woods, Miss Cawthorne, Miss Vyner, Miss L Woodhead

Additional Teachers:  [Details given of the subjects they taught] Mlle Didiez, Mr England, Mr Blacker, Mr Bridge, Miss Salomonson, Miss Macmillan, Miss Millar, Dr Bridge, Mr Towers, Miss Martin

Music Exams

Mr Hecht will conduct music exams  

General Information

Information given about the following:

admission, school hours, the curriculum, homework, examinations, absence, reports to parents, religious instruction, the library, holidays, school dinners, fees, exhibitions, the withdrawal of pupils.

Alfred Neild [sic]

The Treasurer in Account with the Manchester Association for Promoting the Education of Women from November 1873 to October 1874

Details of income and expenditure.

James Warriner

The Treasurer in Account with "The Oxford and Cambridge Local Examinations" from October 1873 to October 1874

Details of expenditure.

The Manchester High School for Girls Statement of Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1874

Details of income and expenditure.

Rules

Details of the rules of the Manchester Association for Promoting the Education of Women.

Members

Details of the members of the Manchester Association for Promoting the Education of Women and their contributions:

Members of the Manchester Association for Promoting the Education of Women, 1874 - 75

[The addresses and the amounts paid in annual subscriptions are also given]

Dr Adams, Dr Alcock, Mrs G P Allen, Mrs J Allison, Archdeacon Anson, Mrs Anson, Mrs Armitage, Miss Armstrong, Mrs Thomas Ashton, Miss Ashton, Mrs Aspden, Rev J Atkinson,

Mrs Barratt, Miss Barton, Sir Thomas Bazley MP, Miss E Becker, Mrs Louis Behrens, Miss Anna Behrens, Miss L Behrens, Miss N Behrens, Mrs Edward Behrens, Mrs Bernus, A Bentley, Mrs Benson, Hugh Birley, Mrs Blacklock, Miss Boardman, Dr Borchardt, Miss Borchardt, Mrs Botsford, T R Bradbury, J F Bridge, Jacob Bright MP, Mrs Bright, Miss Brodie, Mrs Buckley, Miss Buckley, Miss S A Buckley, Mrs Bulteel,

Mrs Cannan,   James Chadwick, Mrs Chambers, Mrs Chabot, Mrs Chippendall, Rev Cottam, the Misses Cottam, Mrs Coward, Mrs Crane, Miss Crosfield, Miss Cross,

Mrs G S Darbishire, Mr R D Darbishire, Mrs R D Darbishire, Mrs Dawkins,   W Boyd Dawkins, Mrs W Dawkins, Mlle Didiez, E Donner, Mrs E Donner, Mrs Dumville, Miss Dunckley, Miss Dugdale,

Mrs Earle, Miss R E Earle, Rev J M Elvy, Mrs Josiah Evans,

Mrs Fielden, Mrs Fleming, Miss Fleming, Miss L Francis, Mrs Fraser,

Mrs Gaddum, Mrs H Gaddum, Rev W Gaskell, Miss Gaskell, Miss J Gaskell, Miss Gill, Miss Good, Mrs Gray, Mr Greenwood, Mrs Greenwood, Mrs A Greg, Miss Gregson, Mr Gregson,

Miss Hall, Miss Harvey, the Misses Haslam, Rev Henniker, W H Herford, Mr C Herford, Mrs C Herford, Hugh Heugh, Mrs Abel Heywood, Oliver Heywood, Mrs Charles Heywood, Mrs J Higgins, Miss Higgins, Miss M Higgins, Miss E Higgins, Mrs G Higgins, Mrs H Higgins, Mrs Hone, Miss L Housley, Miss Harland,

Alexander Ireland,

P R Jackson, Miss Jackson, Miss F Jackson, H B Jackson, Mrs Jackson, the Misses Jackson, Stanley Jevons, Mrs Jevons, Mrs Jabez Johnson, Mrs Johnson,

J Kendall, Rev W J Kennedy, Mrs Kennedy, Miss Kennedy, W R Kennedy, Mrs A Knowles,

Miss Langton, the Misses Lees, Miss Lees, Mrs Leese, H J Leppoc, J Leisler, Mrs Leisler, the Misses Leisler, Mrs Emil Liebert, Mrs Lomax, Mrs Peter Long, Miss Lucas, L Lucas,

Mrs Micholls, Miss Micholls, the Bishop of Manchester, Mrs Morris, Mrs McDonald, R Nicholson, Mrs Nicholson, Alfred Nield, Mrs Nield,

Mrs Parkinson, J Pearce, Mrs Pearce, Miss Pilcher, Rev Pitcairn, Mrs Platt, Miss Potter,

Mrs Reiss, Miss Renshaw, Mrs Reynolds, Miss Reynolds, Rev Richson, Mrs Richson, Dr Roscoe, Miss Rawson, Miss Ryder, Miss Ryley,

Miss Salomons, F Schuster, Mrs Schuster, E Sharp, W Sharp, Mrs Shuttleworth, Mrs Sloman, Rev Steinthal, Prof Balfour Stewart, Mrs Balfour Stewart,

Miss Thorp, Rev Tonge, Mrs Tonge, Mrs Turner, Miss Tysoe,

R G Underdown, Mrs Underdown,

Miss Vernon,

W F Walker, Mrs Warburg, Miss Waters, Miss Watkins, P F Willert, Mrs Willert, Prof Williamson, Miss Williamson, Prof A S Wilkins, Mrs S Winkworth, the Misses Wood, Miss Woodcock, Miss Wright, Mrs Wrigley.

Life Members

Sir J L Bardsley, Mrs Edwin Fletcher, Mrs Edward Schunck, Mrs Shuttleworth, Mrs James Worthington.

Donations

Miss Higgins, Mrs S Winkworth, Mrs Shuttleworth.

Donations in Support of the Classes at Higher Broughton

Mrs W McConnel, Mrs Crum, J A Bremner, B Carver, J Heywood.

Manchester High School for Girls Donations

[The amounts of the donations are given. The names appear in the descending order of the amount of the donation]

Mrs Shuttleworth, Thomas Ashton, Miss Behrens, C F Beyer,

Mrs L Reiss, the Misses Ramsbottom, James Worthington, Miss Ashton, E Behrens, W C Brooks MP, James Chadwick, John Heugh,

O Heywood, W H Houldsworth, Mrs Micholls, R Peacock, Herbert Philips, S Winkworth, Thomas Wrigley, James Heywood MP, P Maclaren, Sam Mendel, E Reiss, Julius Reiss, Mrs C Souchay, J E Taylor, Miss Vernon, Mr Donner, a friend, F Gaddum, E Gaddum, T R Hetherington, Charles Heywood, E Hilton, Rev W J Kennedy, W Sale, Dr Schunck, F Schuster, Robert Stuart, James Parlane, W G Crum, the Bishop of Manchester, Sir E Armitage, G B Blair, E H Brodie, Mr Cheetham, Miss Cheetham, Mrs A Cohen, Thomas Cooke, Mr Christie, Mrs Christie, W A Cunningham, Mrs Dumville, a friend, Miss Gaskell, Murray Gladstone, the Misses Haslam, Mr Koecher, Mrs B Liebert, L A Lucas, E Micholls, W Openshaw, the Misses Naylor, Fritz Reiss, Mrs Robinson, Mrs Schunck, Mrs E Schunck, H Strauss, John Todd, Miss Lucas, Archdeacon Anson, P Allen, Mrs Barratt, Mr Bernus, Mr Broadhurst, Miss Brodie, Charles Brown, C Chamberlin [sic], Mr Leigh Clare, Mrs Leigh Clare, Mrs N Cohen, H J Fairchild, Mrs Fleming, Mrs Samuel Fletcher, Mrs G H Gaddum, J W Greaves, W Hinners, H B Jackson, Miss Micholls, Mr Modera, Mrs Pender, Miss Reyner, Mrs Roscoe, Dr Roscoe, Mr Schill, E S Schwabe, Mr Schwann, A Sington, C A von Stralendorff, L Tatham, J Thom, Mrs Turner, H C, Miss Lees, Mrs Tafel, H Graham, W P Turnbull, G P Allen, Mr Fisher, Mrs E Hardcastle, Mr Holland, Alderman Lamb,

Mrs Bruce, E Fletcher, Mrs Hulton.               

Subscriptions for Four Years

Mr R D Darbishire, Mrs R D Darbishire, Miss Higgins, Mr Leilser, Sam Mendel, William Armitage, Mr Donner, Mr Gottschalck, Mr Kessler, the Misses Buckley, F Hampson, G Clay, the Misses Crossfield Dr Greenwood, Mr Heard, A Nield, Mrs H Salomonson, Mrs A S Wilkins, Miss Renshaw, Mrs Anson, the Hon Mrs Atkinson, Dr Hecksher, G Milner, T D Ryder, Rev S A Steinthal, Rev R Tonge.

Subscriptions for Five Years

H J Leppoc, Miss Dumville, Canon Richson, Rev P J Wodehouse.

Subscription for Seven Years

Mrs Herz.