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

1882

Managing Committee

Rev B M Cowie, Mrs Anson, Mrs E Behrens, E J Broadfield, Rev F F Cornish, R D Darbishire, Mrs R D Darbishire, S Dill, E Donner, Mrs H Gaddum, Miss Gaskell, Dr Greenwood, O Heywood, W Hughes, H E Oakeley, Mrs Roby, C P Scott, Mrs C P Scott, L Tatham, Joseph Thompson, Canon Tonge, Prof Wilkins, Canon Woodhouse

Treasurer: Mr E Donner

 

Auditors:  R D Darbishire, E W Marshall

Hon Secretaries:  Mrs Roby, L Tatham

 

Committee of Management - Attendance

Register of attendance at Committee meetings.

 

Prospectus 1882 - 3

The school is divided into an Upper School for pupils over 12 and a Lower School for pupils under 12.

The Preparatory Department is for girls under 10 and boys under 9 whose sisters are pupils at the school.

 

Teaching Staff

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

Head Mistress:  Miss Day

Mistress [sic] of the Lower School and of the Preparatory School: Miss F Clarke

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 Butcher, 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 Salomonson, Mr Blacker, Miss Macmillan, Miss Millar, Miss Martin, Miss Walsh

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

The move into new premises at Diver St. has been a success.

There are 546 pupils, 363 are in the Upper School, 145 in the Lower School and 38 in the Prep. In 1881 there were 467 pupils.

Regret that Miss Whitlock has retired due to ill health. Welcome to Miss Fanny Clark who replaces her as Headmistress of the Prep.

The library has about 1,100 books. A librarian has been appointed and a set of rules drawn up. Thanks to Mrs Arthur Lupton [nee Ashton] and the executors of Miss Hannah Brackenbury for their gifts to the library. Charles Rowley has given 3 prints by F J Shields to the library.

The school?s financial position is good. Miss Bradford has given ?500 to endow an award which will be called the Mary Bradford Award. The school has received ?1,000 from the Hulme Charity.

 

E S Sanderson, MA, Christ Church College, Cambridge, Vicar of Burgh and Prebendary of Lincoln.

Examiner's Report, 11 September 1882

Details given of the standards achieved by girls in the Upper School in the following subjects:

Latin, French.

Details given of the standards achieved by girls in the Lower School in the following subjects:

Arithmetic, French, English History, Geography, English Grammar.

 

Thomas Woodhouse Levin, MA, Deputy Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy, Cambridge

Examiner's Report, 19 August 1882

Details given of the standards achieved by girls in the following subjects:

English History, English Literature, Political Geography, Physical Geography, English Language, English Grammar, Shakespeare, German.                 

Details given of the standards achieved by the following: Caroline Coignou, Alice Crompton, Edith Lang, Matilda Wackrill, Ada Kyllmann, Edith Rome.

 

J H Taylor, MA Queen's College, Oxford, MA Trinity College, Cambridge, B Sc London

Examiner's Report, 19 September 1882

Details given of the standards achieved by girls in the following subjects:

Arithmetic, Algebra, Euclid, Trigonometry, Conic Sections, Botany, Geology.

Details given of the standards achieved by the following:  Bessie Edwards, Annie Woodhouse, Alice Crompton, S A Elliott, Ethel Rome, Jane Harewood, Gertrude Pritchard, Constance Moore, Rose Bowring, Fanny Harris, Annie Hilditch, Edith Lang, Amy Ryder, Rose Pettinger, Mary Sharpley, Lena Kipping, Gertrude Wilcock, Jane Davies, E Fielding, Nellie Baker, Henrietta Parker, Alice Sharrocks, Margaret Taylor, Bertha Wigglesworth, Caroline Cunliffe, M Higginbottom, A Hughes, C Hodgkinson, A Sullivan, Alice Mitchell, Florence Rayner, Frida Kyllmann, Eva Cohen, Sarah Andrew, Eliza French, Edith Nicholls, Jane Worthington, Julia Barnes, Edith Sewell, Annie Leach, Ellen Wilde, Elizabeth Howard, Ellen Nall, Frances Bowring, Caroline Coignou, Mary Baker, Lucy Downes, Lena Croisdale, Adelaide Smith    

 

Edward Hecht

Examination in Music

Details given of the standards achieved by girls in music including the following: A Kyllmann, E Rome, E [recte C] Coignou, A Milburn, A Wilde, A Crompton, R Lamb, A M Lamb, E Mort, E Fielding, B Eaton, Emily Bradshaw, M Birley, A Birley, Z Varley, K Rowland, A Hamilton, M Keeling, G Broadley, M Ferguson, L Wroe, G Barlow, G Ferguson, G Smith.

The report also describes Miss Bulley as ?an excellent teacher.?

 

Cambridge Local Examination, December 1881

Statistics given of the results

 

Cambridge Local Examinations, Juniors

Details given of the results of the following: Annie Kay, Mabel Spencer, Annie Fielden, Sarah Pettinger, Ada Franklyn, Jessie Tyler, Lucy Wilde.              

Edith Lang was the ?first junior girl in England in botany.?

Beatrice Holme, a School Board Exhibitioner, jointly won the Lady Goldsmid?s Prize for Latin.

Frida Kyllmann was the third junior girl in England in botany.

Alice Crompton was the joint first in England in harmony.

 

Cambridge Local Examinations, Seniors

Details given of the results of the following: Matilda Stockfeld, Eliza French, Jane Harwood, Ellen Nall, Alice Sharpley, Brada Twemlow [sic], Jessie Rayner.

 

Cambridge Higher Local Examinations

Details given of the results of the following: Marion Rome, Sarah Nall,    Jessie Andrews, Edith Brierley, Frances Green, Rosa Johnson, Marian French, Annie Northrops, Frances Green, Margaret Simpson, Frances Arrowsmith,  Jane Heap, Helen Howard, Annie Perry.

 

College of Preceptors

Details given of the results of the following: Fanny Harrison, Julia Barnes.

 

Cambridge Examination - Drawing

Statistics given of the results.

 

Edward Donner

Treasurer's Report, 6 September 1882

Details given of the school?s financial position.

 

Edward Donner, R D Darbishire and Edwin Marshall

The Manchester High School for Girls Statement of Accounts from 1 August 1881 to 31 July 1882

Details given of income and expenditure.

 

Edward Donner, R D Darbishire and Edwin Marshall

Preparatory School Statement of Accounts for the Year Ending 31 July 1882

Details given of income and expenditure. 

 

Edward Donner, R D Darbishire and Edwin Marshall

The Manchester High School for Girls Extension Fund Statement of Accounts to 31 July 1882

Details given of income and expenditure.    

 

Donations to the Extension Fund

Details given of the amounts received from the following [the names appear in the descending order of the amounts given]:

the Bishop of London, C F Beyer, Messrs J N Philips and Co, Mr and Mrs Winkworth, Thomas Wrigley, the Misses Naylor, the Misses Behrens, Miss Behrens, Mr Donner, Richard Johnson, Mrs Langworthy, Messrs Heywood, the Misses Ramsbottom, Mrs Edward Behrens, Mr Mitchell Henry MP, W H Houldsworth, W Kessler, Messrs Liepmann and Co, E Potter, 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, J Cairns, S B Worthington, E J Broadfield, Mrs Carter, Mrs G M Harrison, Mr Schill.                    

 

 

           

  

 

 

           

 

 

         

                   

           

   
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