Governors
Chairman: Canon Tonge
Deputy 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, Canon Hicks, Rev Dr Moorhouse, Herbert Philips, Joseph Rice, Mrs Roby, C P Scott, Mrs C E Schwann, L Tatham, Joseph Thompson, Prof Wilkins, Canon Woodhouse
Treasurer: Mr E Donner
Auditors: Messrs Halliday, Pearson and Co
Hon Secretary: Mrs Roby
Clerk to the Governors: Edwin Marshall
General Information
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.
By special permission of the Charity Commissioners, girls are allowed to remain at the school after the age when they would normally have to leave.
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 Clark, Miss Dolby, Miss Eves, 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, 5 September 1887
Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:
Written Examination
Spelling, English Grammar, English Language, English Composition, Political Geography, Physical Geography, English History, Roman History, History of English Literature, Shakespeare, Political Economy, Arithmetic, Algebra, Euclid, Geometric Conic Sections, Trigonometry, Statics and Dynamics, Analytical Conic Sections, Latin, Greek, Drawing.
Oral Examinations
Reading, Recitation, English History, Geography, French.
Pendleton Branch School
English Grammar, English History, Political Geography, Physical Geography, Arithmetic, Latin, Drawing.
Dr Braunholtz
Report of Dr Braunholtz on the French and German
Details given of the standards achieved in French and German.
W W Taylor MA
Examiner's Report
Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:
Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Botany.
Joseph Bridge, MA, D Mus, Organist and Master of Choristers of Chester Cathedral
Examiners' Report, 15 July 1887
Details given of the standards achieved in music by the following: Ethel Roberts, A Truscott, Grace Winder, Adeline Allison, R Race, Lucy Lowcock, Ethel Fulton, E Schofield, F Ewan, E Baker, M Mellin, Grace Mellin.
E Rice
Examiner's Report, 12 August 1887
Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:
Reading, Recitation, Writing, Spelling, Arithmetic, Grammar, Composition, Geography, English History, French.
E Rice
Examiner's Report, 12 August 1887
Details given of the standards achieved in the Prep in the following subjects:
Reading, Recitation, Spelling, Writing, Arithmetic, Geography, History, Elementary Botany, Object Lessons, French.
E Rice
Examiner's Report, 12 August 1887
Details given of the standards achieved at Pendleton School in the following subjects:
Reading, Recitation, Spelling, Writing, Arithmetic, Geography, History, Object Lessons, French.
E Marion Ashton and Margaret Emily Gaskell
Report on Sewing, High School for Girls, 7 February 1887
Details given of the standards achieved in sewing.
E Marion Ashton and Margaret Emily Gaskell
Report on Sewing, Pendleton School, 17 February 1887
Details given of the standards achieved in sewing.
Honours List, 1886 - 1887
Details given of successes in further education of the following: Beatrice Holme, Caroline Coignou, Annie Kay, Edith Lang, Ethel Rome, Edith Johnstone, Amy Mullock, Margaret Gill, Beatrice Board, Emily Johnson, Marion Ledward, Constance Moore, Alice Crompton, Jane Worthington, Eliza Harrison, Lucy Baker, Eleanor Robinson, Lucy Buckley, Edith Robinson, Margaret Lea.
Cambridge Higher Local Examinations, June 1887
Details given of successes of the following: Edith Brayshaw, Adelaide Trevor, Bertha Wigglesworth, Victorine Jeans, Jessie Stephenson, Maud Vernon, Sarah Schofield, Madeline Mellin, Henrietta Parker.
Cambridge Junior Local Examinations, December 1886
Details given of successes of the following: Jessie Headridge, Helen Redfern, Edith Anderson, Amy Ballard, Dora Cadman, Evelyn Child, Ellen Hamer, Constance Jurgensen, Alice Lawton, Emily Salkeld, Edith Silvester, Mary Lowe.
Oxford Junior Examination, July 1887
Details given of successes of Adela Gell.
Science and Art Examination [South Kensington], May 1887
Details given of successes in drawing of the following: Lizzie Beard, Margaret Beggs, Annie Mendelssohn, Dorothy Cornish, Ann Wareham, Ada Corbett, Edith Hargreaves, E Salkeld.
Exhibitioners, Year Ending August 1887
Beatrice Holme, Edith Lang, Alice Crompton, Jane Harwood, Lucy Baker, Margaret Gill, Amy Mullock.
Mary Bradford Scholar, Elected September 1886
Edith Johnstone
Scholars, Year Ending August 1887
Edith Anderson, Elizabeth Beard, Margaret Lea, Mabel Wilkinson, Elizabeth Varley, Adeline Allison, Nora Guttenberg, Victorine Jeans, Eleanor Newton, Gertrude Tafel, Adelaide Trevor, Gertrude Windsor, Effie Bullock, Mary Johnstone, Clara Ledward, Annie Truscott, Maud Vernon.
Exhibitioners, Elected since 31 August 1887
Margaret Lea, Victorine Jeans, Adelaide Trevor.
Scholars, Elected since 31 August 1887
VI Form: M Windsor
V Form: Jessie Headridge
Lower School: Effie Boullen
Preparatory School: Mary Barnes
Pendleton School: Ethel Griggiths
Entrance Exam: A Smith
The Following Former Pupils of the School hold or have held Scholarships awarded by the Committee of Subscribers to the Fund for Scholarships tenable in the Women's Department of Owens College
Dates given when the scholarships were awarded to the following: Ethel Rome, Annie Kay, Emily Johnson, Edith Johnstone, Victorine Jeans, Marion Ledward, Constance Moore, Beatrice Board.
Edward Donner
Treasurer's Report for the Year Ending 31 August 1887
Details given of the financial state of the school.
Edward Donner
Statement of Accounts from 1 September 1886 to 31 August 1887
Details of income and expenditure.
List of Donors to the New Buildings
Details given of the amounts paid by the following [the names appear in descending order of the amounts paid]:
Thomas Ashton, Mr and Mrs Behrens, Edward Donner, Oliver Heywood, J P Thomasson, James Worthington, G H Gaddum, Miss Gaskell, Mrs Langworthy, J and N Philips and Co, Miss Bradford, Mrs Fraser, Mrs Schwann, Leonard Tatham, Mr and Mrs H Philips, Mrs Micholls, Mrs Winkworth, Canon Woodhouse, W E Melland, Dr Horton Allison, Mr Travis, Miss Minnie Brown, Charles Johnstone, H A Johnstone, Samuel Leach, Thomas Parker, George Payne, M Schlesinger, Edward Tafel, S Andrew, H Baker, A J Bennett, Charles Boullen, W T Evans, John Ferguson, Mrs Franklyn, C Greenwood, Thomas Grime, F M Jeans, J Lang, John Lees, Joseph Lingard, George Milner, J Robinson, Mrs Elizabeth Rowley, J L Turner, Rev J J Twist, Adam Winlaw, R C S, Q M S, the Assistant Mistresses.
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 1887
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 A, III Middle B, III Lower, 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 IV, Class III, Class II Upper, Class II Middle, Class II Lower, Class I.