Managing Committee
Rev B M Cowie, Mrs Anson, Mrs E Behrens, E J Broadfield, Rev F F Cornish, 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
Treasurer: Mr E Donner
Auditors: Messrs Halliday, Pearson and Co
Hon Secretaries: Mrs Roby, L Tatham
Registrar: Edwin Marshall
Committee of Management - Attendance
Register of attendance at Committee meetings for September 1882 - July 1883.
Teaching Staff
[The academic qualifications of some of the staff are included]
Head Mistress: Miss Day
Secretary to the Head Mistress: Miss Butcher
Mistress of the Lower School: Miss Clark
Mistress of the Preparatory School: Miss D C Tubbs
Assistant Mistresses in the Upper School
Miss Turnbull, Miss Bulley, Miss Dabis, Miss Alice England, Miss Adamson, Miss Cheetham, Miss Clarke, Miss H E Day, Miss Dendy, Miss Gaffron, Miss M Hodgkinson, Miss Ingall, Miss Kent, Miss Perkins, Miss Rogers, Miss Sanders, Miss Simpson, Miss Walker, Miss Welch, Miss Wilkins.
Assistant Mistresses in the Lower School
Second Mistress: Miss Kett
Miss Harrison, Miss Hodgkinson, Miss Leach, Miss Northrop, Miss Pollard, Miss A Smith
Visiting Teachers
M. Lallemand, Mr Blacker, Miss Martin, Miss Salomonson, Miss Macmillan, Miss Millar
General Information
The school is divided into Upper and Lower Sections. The Prep is for girls for girls under 10 and boys under 9 who have sisters in the school.
Information given about the following:
school hours, the curriculum, homework, examinations, absence, reports to parents, religious instruction, the library, holidays, school dinners, fees, exhibitions and scholarships, the withdrawal of pupils.
Report of the High School Committee for 1883
There are 572 pupils in the school of whom 41 are in the Prep.
Parents are urged to send their children to the school at an early an age as possible.
General comments on the good health of pupils.
Attention is drawn to the good reports on the school and its good Cambridge exam results:
Caroline Coignou was the first in England in botany.
Edith Lang was the second girl in Maths and won the Lady Goldsmid prize. She was eligible to be the first winner of the Mary Bradford Scholarship but this is for leavers and she does not want to leave the school yet.
Details given of successes in further education of the following:: Edith Sharpley, Jane Beggs, Annie Eastwood, Mary Baker.
The library has 1,130 books. Details given of opening times and arrangements for borrowing books.
Frances Green was awarded the scholarship which Mr Thomasson MP has endowed for students at the Training College for Teachers, Skinner St. London.
The school's financial position is good.
E S Sanderson, MA, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Vicar of Burgh and Prebendary of Lincoln
Examiner's Report, 16 November 1883
Details given of the standards achieved by pupils in the Upper School in the following subjects:
Latin, French.
Details given of the standards achieved by pupils in the Lower School in the following subjects:
Arithmetic, French, English History, Geography, English Grammar.
T W Levin, St Catharine's College
Examiner's Report
Details given of the standards achieved by pupils in the following subjects:
Political Economy, English History, Geography, English Language, English Grammar, English Composition, Shakespeare, German.
Details given of the standards achieved by the following pupils: Lilly Wilde, Minnie Sharpley, Mary Roby, Ethel Rome, Lucy Fairbrother, Adelaide Smith, Lily Studd, Alice Crompton, Emily Johnson, Margaret Taylor, Edith Gregory, Bessie Broxap [sic], Jessie Elson, Fanny Evington, Lena Croisdale, Bertha Wigglesworth, Nellie Gompert, Annie Kay, Mary Bremnehl [sic]
J H Taylor, MA Queen's College, Oxford, MA Trinity College, Cambridge, B Sc London
Examiner's Report
Details given of the standards achieved by pupils in the following subjects:
Botany, Arithmetic, Algebra, Euclid, Trigonometry, Conic Sections, Chemistry, Biology.
Details given of the standards achieved by the following pupils: E Wigglesworth, C Weve, L Baker, E A Jackson, M L Johnson, M Taylor, G Fallows, E Dixon, E Dobson, M Headridge, L E Shaw, A Pullinger, A Tetley, L Fairbrother, E Harrison, A Kay, N Woodhouse, M Lea, M Y Robertson, C M?Leod, F J Raynor, L Studd, F Waterhouse, E Andrew, M L Johnson, C Lloyd, M Taylor, S Dutton, S Eccles, E Fulton, G Higginbottom, E T Roper, A E Griffin, E Hood, E E Wood, B E Wolfenden, L Ledward, A Harden, A Robinson, M Sharpley, E P French, E Fielding, A C Birley, E S Jones, A Oliver, A H Porter, M L Woodhouse, A M Mitchell, R Bowring, E Harrison, E Johnstone, E Cohen, B A Holme.
H N Bowler
Examination in Drawing, 5 October 1883
Statistics given and comments made on the standards achieved in drawing.
Edward Hecht
Examination in Music, 18 July 1883
Details given of the standards achieved by pupils studying music including the following: G Ferguson, E Johnson, L Barton, L Greenwood, A Crompton, C Fielding, E Fielding, A Stagg, A Bennett, E Mort, F Harden, B Harden, A Porter, F Bowring, A Sutherland, A Birley, C Birley, E Dean, M Lanyon, R Tindall, D Green.
R Lamb is described as "the best player in the School."
Comments made on the standards of teaching of Miss Harrison.
Cambridge Higher Local Examination, June 1883
Details given of the standards achieved by the following pupils: J Andrews, F Arrowsmith, E Brierley, A Dearman, J Elson, E P French, M French, J Harwood, J Heap, H S Howard, A Lawton, E Nall, N O'Shea, F Rayner, A E Swain, C J Walsh.
Cambridge Senior Local Examination, December 1882
Details given of the standards achieved by the following pupils: E Rome, C Coignou, A Kyllmann, M Baker, F H Harris.
Cambridge Junior Local Examination
Details given of the standards achieved by the following pupils: A Kay, E Lang, F Kyllmann, A J Cohen, G A Creeser, E Frame, N R Harrison, H Hughes, E Johnstone, M L Kent, A Leach, F H Rayner, M Robinson, M Roby, A H Smith,
J Worthington.
Second Grade Art Examination
Details given of the standards achieved by the following pupils: Edith Newton, Alice Redmayne, Amy Stagg, Constance Redmayne, Laura Rhodes, Alice Robinson, Emily Baker, Emily Collier, Ada Crighton, Sarah Eccles, Edith Jubb, Constance Jurgensen, Edith Mort, Amy Mullock, Adelaide Smith, Brada Twemlow [sic], Marian French, Edith Newton, Gertrude Wilcock.
Edward Donner
Treasurer?s Report for the Year Ending 31 August 1883
Details given of the financial state of the school.
Edward Donner, Edwin Marshall and R D Darbishire
Statement of Accounts from 1 August 1882 to 31 August 1883
Details of income and expenditure.
Edward Donner, Edwin Marshall and R D Darbishire
Extension Fund Statement of Accounts to 31 August 1883
Details of income and expenditure.
Donations to the Extension Fund
Details given of amounts paid by the following [the names appear in descending order of the amounts given]:
C F Beyer, Messrs J and N Philips and Co, Mr and Mrs Winkworth, Thomas Wrigley, the Misses Naylor, the Misses Behrens, Miss Behrens, Mr Donner, Richard Johnson, Mrs Langworthy, the Misses Heywood, the Misses Ramsbottom, the Bishop of Manchester, Mrs Edward Behrens, Mr Mitchell Henry MP, W H Houldsworth MP, W Kessler, Messrs Liepmann and Co, E Potter, Emil Reiss, Dr Schunck, C P Scott, Mr Russell Scott, Mrs Souchay, S Robinson, 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, Mr Kyllmann, Mr Modera, J Style, H Dunckley, John Cookson, James Turner, Canon Tonge, Miss Clara Lees, E Nicholls, VI Form via Miss C Lane, Rev G D Geden, J H Nicholson, VI Form via A W, J Cairns, donations from the friends of Mrs M?Keand, C C Coe, S B Worthington, E J Broadfield, Mrs Carter, Mrs G M Harrison, Mr Schill.
Regulations of the Mary Bradford Scholarship
Details of the criteria for the award of the Mary Bradford Scholarship.
Form of Bequest to the School
Proforma of a bequest of money to the school.