Governors
Chairman: Edward Donner
Prof Robert Adamson, Mrs Anson, Miss Ashton, Mrs E Behrens, E J Broadfield, Rev F F Cornish, Mrs R D Darbishire, Mrs H Gaddum, Miss Gaskell, Dr Greenwood, O Heywood, Rev Dr Moorhouse, Rev Dr Oakeley, Herbert Philips, Joseph Rice, Mrs Roby, C P Scott, Mrs C E Schwann, 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
Prospectus 1886 -7
The school is divided into Upper and Lower Sections.
The Prep is for girls under 10 and boys under 9 whose sisters are pupils of the school.
The Branch School at 2 Birch Mount, Eccles Old Road, Pendleton is for girls between the ages of 6 and 14 and boys under 9 whose sisters are pupils at the school.
Information given about the following:
admissions, fees, school hours, curriculum, religious instruction, homework, school reports to parents, the library, school dinners, examinations, exhibitions and scholarships, absence, holidays, the withdrawal of pupils.
Teaching Staff
[The academic qualifications of some of the staff are included]
Head Mistress: Miss Day
Mistress of the Preparatory School: Miss Tubbs
Mistress of Pendleton Branch School: Miss Butcher
Assistant Mistresses in the Upper School
Miss Ingall, Miss Beggs, Miss Dabis, Miss Dolby, Miss Alice England, Miss McCroben, Miss Adamson, Miss Cheetham, Miss Dendy, Miss Gaffron, Miss M Hodgkinson, Miss Kent, Miss Lawton, Miss Northrop, Miss Perkins, Miss Rogers, Miss Rome, Miss Sanders, Miss Simpson, Miss Walker, Miss Welch
Assistant Mistresses in the Lower School
Miss Kett, Miss Harrison, Miss Herklots, Miss Hodgkinson, Miss A Smith, Miss C J Walsh
Visiting Teachers
M. V Kastner, Mr Willis, Sergeant Bosward, Miss Salomonson, Miss Macmillan, Miss Millar, Mrs Byron Cooper
T J Sanderson MA, Late Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge
Examiner's Report, 7 September 1886
Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:
Written Examinations
Spelling, English Grammar, English Composition, English Language, Political Geography, Physical Geography, English History, French History, History of English Literature, Shakespeare, Political Economy, Arithmetic, Algebra, Euclid, Trigonometry, Conic Sections, Latin, Greek, Drawing.
Oral Examination
Recitation, French.
Pendleton Branch School
Arithmetic, English Grammar, Geography, History, Latin, French.
J R Wilson MA
Examiner's Report, 4 September 1886
Details given of the standards achieved in French.
Pendleton Branch School
Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:
Biology, Chemistry, Botany.
Eugen Braunholtz MA
Examiner's Report
Details given of the standards achieved in German.
Edward Hecht
Examiner's Report, 12 July 1886
Details given of the standards achieved in music by the following: R Ewan, E Mort, E Baker, E Guest, G Mellin, M Mellin, Ethel Fulton, Edith Fulton, ?the Misses Ferguson,? E Schofield, L Greenwood, E Lund, Miss Newbigging [sic].
List of Honours Obtained at Owens College, 1886
Details of the successes of the following: Ethel Rome, Annie Kay, Edith Lang, Emily Johnson, Alice Crompton.
London Matriculation, June 1886
Details of the successes of the following: Lucy Baker, Eleanor Robinson.
Cambridge Local Examinations, 1886
Details of the successes of the following: Victorine Jeans, Alice Cooke, Adelaide Smith, Adelaide Trevor, Fanny Evington, Clara Lloyd.
Cambridge Junior Local Examinations, 1886
Details of the successes of the following: Agnes Tonge, Marion Headridge, Genevieve Holt, Annie Beard, Frances Ewan, Eleanor Pugh, Annie Truscott, Ada Wackrill, Eleanor Evans, Mabel Lanyon, Constance Newton, Emily Reynolds, Margaret Stenhouse, Marian Travis, Marion Whitaker, May Winlaw.
Science and Art Examination [South Kensington], May 1886
Details of the successes of the following in drawing: Edith Hamer, Margaret Pownall, Gwendoline Wilson, Hester Beard, May Beard, Ada Corbett, Annie Evans, Eleanor Evans, Adeline Leicester, Annie Peacock, Emily Salkeld, Sarah Schofield, Marion Southern, Jessie Stephenson, Lilian Thorp, Anne Wareham.
College of Preceptors, December 1885
Details of the successes of the following in art: Florence Harden, Florence Bennett.
College of Preceptors, 1886
Details of the successes of the following in art: Mabel Jenkins, Amy Brown, Elizabeth Haynes, Bertha Rawlings.
Exhibitioners, Year Ending August 1886
[Details given of the date on which the award was made]
Beatrice Holme, Edith Lang, Alice Crompton, Jane Harwood.
Mary Bradford Scholar, 1884
Annie Kay
Scholars, Year Ending August 1886
[Details given of the date on which the award was made]
Edith Anderson, Lucy Baker, Edith Baxter, Elizabeth Beard, Margaret Lea, Mabel Wilkinson, Helen Ferguson, Elizabeth Varley, Adeline Allison, Nora Guttenberg, Victorine Jeans, Eleanor Newton, Gertrude Tafel, Adelaide Trevor, Gertrude Windsor.
Exhibitioners, Awards made since 31 August 1886
Lucy Baker, Margaret Gill, Amy Mullock.
Mary Bradford Scholar, 1886
Edith Johnstone
Scholars, Awards made since 31 August 1886
Effie Bullock, Mary Johnstone, Clara Ledward, Annie Truscott, Maud Vernon.
Former Pupils of the School who hold Scholarships awarded by the Committee of Subscribers to the Fund for Scholarships tenable in the Women's Department of the Owens College
Ethel Rome, Annie Kay, Emily Johnson, Edith Johnstone, M Ledward, C Moore, B Board.
Edward Donner
Treasurer?s Report for the Year Ending 31 August 1886
Details given of the financial state of the school.
Edward Donner
Statement of Accounts from 1 September 1885 to 31 August 1886
Details of income and expenditure.
Regulations for Scholarships and Exhibitions
Details of regulations for the award of financial assistance with school fees.
Regulations for the Mary Bradford Scholarship
Details of regulations for the award of the Mary Bradford Scholarship.
Form of Bequest to the School
Proforma of bequeathing money to the school.
Alphabetical Class Lists, July 1886
Names of girls in the following classes:
Upper School: Seniors, VI Upper, VI Lower, V Upper, V Middle, V Lower, Intermediate, IV Upper, IV Middle, IV Lower A, IV Lower B, III Upper, III Middle, III Lower A, III Lower B, Upper Probationary, Lower Probationary.
Lower School: II Upper, II Middle, II Lower, I Upper, I Middle, I Lower. Preparatory School: Class III, Class II, Class I.
Pendleton School: Class III, Class II Upper, Class II Lower, Class I.