Governors
Chairman: Edward Donner
Rev B M Cowie, Mrs Anson, Miss Ashton, Mrs E Behrens, E J Broadfield, Rev F F Cornish, Mrs R D Darbishire, Mrs Fraser, Mrs H Gaddum, Miss Gaskell, Dr Greenwood, O Heywood, W Hughes, H E Oakeley, Joseph Rice, Mrs Roby, C P Scott, Mrs C P Scott, L Tatham, Joseph Thompson, Canon Tonge, Prof Wilkins, Canon Woodhouse
Treasurer: Mr E Donner
Auditors: Messrs Halliday, Pearson and Co
Hon Secretary: Mrs Roby
Clerk to the Governors: Edwin Marshall
Table of Governors' Attendance
Register of attendance at Governors? meetings for September 1882 - July 1883.
Teaching Staff
[The academic qualifications of some of the staff are included]
Head Mistress: Miss Day
Mistress of the Preparatory School: Miss Tubbs
Assistant Mistresses in the Upper School
Miss Turnbull, Miss Bulley, Miss Dabis, Miss Dolby, Miss Alice England, Miss McCroben, Miss Adamson, Miss Cheetham, Miss Dendy, Miss Gaffron, Miss M Hodgkinson, Miss Ingall, Miss Kent, Miss Perkins, Miss Rogers, Miss Rome, 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 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 Governors for the Year Ending 31 August 1884
This is the last year in which the school will operate under "the old Trust. Henceforth it will be worked under scheme granted by the Charity Commissioners which came into effect on the 22 February of this year."
There are 516 pupils in the school of which 26 are in the Prep.
The school has been able to provide assistance with school fees for the first time out of school funds [details given]. The first Exhibition was awarded to Beatrice Alice Holme [details given] and the second to Edith Lang [details given].
Scholarships [details given] have been awarded to the following: Alice Crompton, A M Woodhouse, Margaret Lea, Lucy Baker, Elizabeth Beard, Mabel Wilkinson.
The Mary Bradford Scholarship was awarded to Annie Kay [details given].
Lucy Fairbrother achieved the highest marks in the July exams and would have been eligible for a scholarship but she did not apply for one.
There are 28 assistant mistresses and other visiting teachers.
There are now two libraries in the school. One has 1,220 books and the new Junior Library has 300 books.
E S Sanderson, MA, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Examiner's Report, Upper School, 17 September 1884
Details given of standards achieved in the following subjects:
Greek, Latin, French, French History, Shakespeare, English Language, Political Economy, English Composition, English Grammar.
Details given of standards achieved by the following: L Fairbrother, A Kay, K Cavendish, M Vernon.
E S Sanderson, MA, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Examiner's Report, Lower School, 17 September 1884
Details given of standards achieved in the following:
French, Arithmetic, English History, Geography, English Grammar.
J H Taylor, MA, Queen's College, Oxford, MA, Trinity College, Cambridge, B Sc London,
Examiner?s Report, 25 September 1884
Details given of standards achieved in the following:
Chemistry, Biology, Botany, Physical Geography, English History, Arithmetic, Algebra, Euclid, Trigonometry.
Details given of standards achieved by the following: E Harrison, Gertrude Dawes, Lucy Buckley, Maud Vernon, M Sykes, Annie Crossfield, Elizabeth Beardmore, Sarah Schofield, Lillie Hill, Florence Le Page, Alice Crompton, Edith Eckersley, Annie Leach, Lena Croisdale, Mary Woodhouse, Lucy Buckley, Amy Hamilton, Ethel Stewart, Lucy Fairbrother, Constance Moore, Annie Woodhouse, Fanny Evington, Margaret Lea, Henrietta Parker, Amy Mullock, Margaret Gill, Ellen Smith, Mary Windsor, Ada Newby, Esther Dean, Edith Griffin, Elizabeth Hewart, Isabella Hutton, Jessie Midgley, Gertrude Sawden, Constance Heather, Auguste de Jong, Emma Lupton, Agnes McGregor, Nellie Newett, Hannah Dornan, Ethel Rowley, Fanny Thornborough, Lucy Baker, Emily Johnson, Annie Porter, Annie Kay, Eliza Harrison, Victorine Jeans.
E W Hobson
Examination in German
Details given of standards achieved in German.
H A Bowler
Examination in Drawing, 7 September 1884
Details given of standards achieved in drawing.
Edward Hecht
Examination in Music, 19 July 1884
Details given of standards achieved by the following: Amy Stroud, Jemima Forth, A Birley, M Birley, G Broadley, L Greenwood, E France, E Hoff, F Ewan, E Mort, A Peacock, A Stagg, A Tindall, M Herald, M Bingham, M Sharpley, A Porter, B Eaton, A Bennett, A Harden, A Smith.
Pupils Who Passed the Cambridge Higher Local Examination
Details given of standards achieved by the following: A Dowman, M French, J Harwood, N Howard, A Lawton, A Mitchell, M O?Shea, N O?Shea, G Pritchard, F Rayner, J Robinson, A Swain, F Bevan, M Wilkinson.
Cambridge Junior Local Examinations
Details given of standards achieved by the following: E Harrison, M Lea, E Dockray, N Harrison, R McGowan, L Studd, N Windsor.
Second Grade Art Examination
Details given of standards achieved by the following: G Broadley, M Alcock, A Blake, D Cornish, B Eaton, E France, J Galloway, E Hewart, B Mayall, M Selbie, J Varley, A Woodward, F Ewan.
Edward Donner
Treasurer's Report for the Year Ending 31 August 1884
Details given of the financial state of the school.
Edward Donner, Edwin Marshall and R D Darbishire
Statement of Accounts from 1 September 1883 to 31 August 1884
Details of income and expenditure
Donations to the Extension Fund
Details given of amounts paid by the followijg [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.