Manchester High School For Girls
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Database : School Reports, 1874 - 1952

1881

Committee of Management

Trustees

[Includes details of other positions they hold]

Rev B M Cowie, R D Darbishire, E Donner, J G Greenwood, H E Oakeley, L Tatham, Rev Tonge, A S Wilkins, Mrs Anson, Miss Gaskell, Mrs Roby, Mrs C P Scott

Other Members

[Includes details of other positions they hold]

Miss Ashton, Mrs E Behrens, E J Broadfield, Rev F F Cornish, Mrs R D Darbishire, S Dill, Mrs Henry Gaddum, O Heywood, W Hughes, C P Scott, J Thompson, Rev C W Woodhouse

Treasurer:  Mr Donner

Auditors: Mr Darbishire,  E W Marshall

Secretaries:  Mrs Roby, L Tatham

 

Committee of Management - Attendance

Register of attendance at management meetings.

 

Prospectus 1881 ? 2

The High School is divided into the Upper School for pupils over 12 and the Lower School for pupils under 12.

The Preparatory School at 274 Oxford Street is for girls under 10 and boys under 9 whose sisters are in the school.

 

Teaching Staff

[The academic qualifications of some of the teachers are given]

Head Mistress:  Miss Day

Head Mistress of the Lower School and the Preparatory School:  Miss Whitlock

Assistant Mistresses:  Miss Turnbull, Miss E A Sanders, Miss Ingall, Miss Walker, Miss Dendy, Miss Cheetham, Miss Gaffron, Miss Clarke, Miss Sturge, Miss Perkins, Miss Rogers, Miss Sanders, Miss Sellick, Miss Welch, Miss Wilkins, Miss Adamson, Miss H E Day, Miss Simpson, Miss Hodgkinson, Miss Kent, Miss Harrison, C L Graves, M Lallemand, Mrs Kyllmann, Miss Bulley, Miss Smith, Mr Blacker, Miss Salomonson, Miss Macmillan, Miss Millar, Miss Martin

Assistant Mistress in the Preparatory School:  Miss L Smith

 

General Information

Information given about the following:

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

 

Report of the Committee

A brief review of the early history of the school.

Table given of the numbers of pupils in the school for each year between 1874 and 1881.

There are 25 teachers and other teachers for specific subjects, eg music.

General comments on the examinations by the Cambridge Syndicate.

The library has over 1,000 books and ?20 pa is spent on books. Thanks to Mrs Leisler and Mr Darbishire "for their large and valuable contributions." 

At the request of parents, the Prep now takes boys up to the age of 9 whose sisters are pupils of the school. In 1881 15 new girls were admitted to the Prep and 9 boys.

In the High School there are 118 pupils in the Lower Division and 390 in the Upper Division.

Detailed description of the school?s new premises at Dover St.

 

As to Arrangements with the Charity Commissioners and the Governors of the Hulme's Charity

The application to the Charity Commissioners for the administration of the Hulme?s Charity has been successful.

 

Thomas Woodhouse Levin MA, Inter - Collegiate Lecturer in Logic and Moral Philosophy, St Catharine's College, Cambridge

Examiner's Report, 13 August 1881

Details given of the standards achieved by pupils in different forms in these subjects:

Mathematics, English Literature, English Grammar, English History, Political Economy, Political and Physical Geography, German.

 

E S Sanderson MA CCC Camb, Vicar of Burgh and Prebendary of Lincoln Examiner's Report, 8 September 1881

Details given of the standards achieved by pupils in different forms in these subjects:

Latin, Roman History, French, Geology, Botany, Drawing, Spelling, Reading, Handwriting.

 

E S Sanderson MA Examiner's Report of the Preparatory Department, 8 September 1881

Details given of the standards achieved by pupils in different forms in these subjects:

French, Geography, English History, English Grammar, Reading, Spelling, Handwriting.

 

Cambridge Local Examinations, December 1880 - Juniors

Details given of the successes of the following: Beatrice Holme, Ada Kyllmann, Caroline Coignou, Bessie Edwards, Roberta Macgregor, Barbara Pickston, Frances Bowring, Alice Entwistle, Edith Fleming, Ruth Lamb, Edith Lang, Margaret Marshall, Norah O?Shea, Rose Pettinger, Gertrude Porter, Margaret Scott, Mabel Simpson, Constance Turner.

 

Cambridge Local Examinations, December 1880 - Seniors

Details given of the successes of the following: Frances Arrowsmith, Frances Green, Alice Lamb, Fanny Leach, Clara Nicholls, Annie Rayner, Rosa Rayner, Alice Wilde.             

 

London Matriculation, January 1881

Details given of the successes of the following: Emily Pearce, Eliza Kent.                  

 

Cambridge Higher Local Examinations, June 1881

Details given of the successes of the following: Elizabeth Harrison, Emily Pearce, Bertha Wiglesworth [sic], Julia Percival, Anna Clark, Emmeline Hurst, Margaret Simpson, Lilian Leach, Annie Northrop, Amy Welch, Eliza Kay.                  

 

Former Pupils who are Teachers

Of former pupils, over 30 are teachers in school or families and 10 are headmistresses. One lectures in history at the Pupil Teachers Training College, Liverpool and several are elementary school teachers.

 

Edward Donner

Treasurer?s Report for the Year Ending 31 July 1881 

Details given of income and expenditure.

 

Edward Donner, R D Darbishire and Edward Marshall

The Manchester High School for Girls Statement of Accounts for the Year Ending 31 July 1881

Details given of income and expenditure.

 

Edward Donner, R D Darbishire and Edward Marshall

Preparatory School Statement of Accounts for the Year Ending 31 July 1881

Details given of income and expenditure.

 

Edward Donner, R D Darbishire and Edward Marshall

The Manchester High School for Girls Extension Fund Statement of Accounts for the Year Ending 31 July 1881

Details given of income and expenditure.

 

Donations to the Extension Fund

Details given of the amounts given to the fund by the following [the names appear in descending order of the amounts given]:

the Bishop of Manchester, C F Beyer, Messrs J N Philips and Co, Mr and Mrs Winkworth, Thomas Wrigley, the Miss Naylor, the Misses Behrens, Miss Behrens, Mr Donner, Richard Johnson, Mrs Langworthy, the Misses Heywood, the Misses Ramsbottom, Mrs Edward Behrens, Mr Mitchell Henry MP, W H Houldsworth, W Kessler, Messrs Liepmann and Co, Emil Reiss, Dr Schunck, C P Scott, Mr Russell Scott, Mrs Souchay, W G Crum, Mrs Cunningham, S Dill, Mrs Fraser, Mr and Mrs Koecher, Mrs Micholls, C E Schwann, H M Steinthal, J E Taylor, Miss M E Gaskell, Miss Whitlock, Mrs R C Christie, H Dunckley, Mr Kyllmann, Mr Modera, S Robinson, J Style, Canon Tonge, John Cookson, James Turner, VI Form via Miss C Lane, Clara Lees, E Micholls, Rev J D Geden, J H Nicholson, VI Form via A W, John Ferguson, J Cairns, Mrs M?Keand, C C Coe, Mr Jones, S B Worthington, E J Broadfield, Mrs G M Harrison, Mr Schill.               

 

Time Tables

Details of the times and subjects taught on the different days of the week in the following forms: Lower First, Middle First, Upper First, Lower Second, Middle Second, Upper Second, III Lower, III Middle, III Upper, IV First, IV First, IV First, Intermediate, V Lower, V Upper, VI Lower, VI Upper, Lower Probationary, Middle Probationary, Upper Probation [sic].

 

Extracts from the Trust Deed of 28 April 1880

Extracts from the Trust Deed about the provision of religious instruction.

 

Extract from the Scheme for the Administration of Hulme's Charity, dated 26 August 1881. The Girls? School

Extract from the Hulme's Charity about the payment of grants to the school.

 

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

         

    

 

 

                                                                     

   
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