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, Prof Harold B Dixon, Mrs H Gaddum, Miss Gaskell, Mr T J Gill, Dr Greenwood, Oliver Heywood, Canon Hicks, Herbert Philips, Mrs H J Roby, Mrs C E Schwann, L Tatham, Joseph Thompson, Prof A W Ward, Prof Wilkins, Canon Woodhouse
Treasurer: Mr L Tatham
Auditors: Messrs Halliday, Pearson and Co
Hon Secretary: Mrs Roby
Clerk to the Governors: Edwin Marshall
The Manchester High School for Girls
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 Beggs, Miss Clark, Miss Dolby, Miss Eves, Miss McCroben, Miss Simons, Miss Adamson, Miss Cheetham, Miss Dendy, Miss Gaffron, Miss M Hodgkinson, Miss Ingall, Miss Kent, Miss Lawton, Miss Northrop, Miss Perkins, 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 Macmillan, Miss Millar, Mrs Byron Cooper
General Information
The school is divided into the Upper and Lower School.
The Lower School is for pupils under 9.
The Prep is for girls under 10 and boys aged 6 - 9 who have sisters in 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.
Pendleton High School for Girls
Head Mistress: Miss Butcher
Assistant Mistresses:
Miss Mortimer, Miss Nall, Miss Rawlinson, Miss Wroe
The school is for girls over the age of 6 and boys aged 6 ? 9 whose sisters are pupils of the school.
Rev T Stevens
Examiner's Report, August 1888
Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:
Greek, Latin, Shakespeare, Trigonometry, Conic Sections, Statics and Dynamics, Euclid, Algebra, Arithmetic, Spelling, Handwriting, Reading Aloud, Geography, History, French.
Thomas Woodhouse Levin MA
Examiner's Report, 15 August 1888
Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:
Political Economy, English Language, English Literature, Political History, Geography.
E Braunholtz MA, University Lecturer in French, Cambridge
Examiner's Report, 27 August 1888
Details given of the standards achieved in French and German.
Charles Heycock MA
Examiner's Report, August 1888
Summary given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:
Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Botany.
Matilda Penstone, Mistress of Method, Home and Colonial School Society, London
Miss Penstone's Report, July 1888
Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:
Arithmetic, Science, Reading, Grammar, Natural History, Recitation, Object Lessons.
James Taylor, Mus B, New College, Oxford
Report of Mr James Taylor, 31 July 1888
Details given of the standards achieved in music.
R H A Willis, Head Master of the Manchester School of Art
Report by Mr R H A Willis, 20 October 1888
Summary given of the standards achieved in drawing.
Government Examination Results
Details given of the standards achieved in art by the following: Jessie Headridge, Lizzie Harland, Marion Mayal, Emily Reynolds, Lillie Avery, Anna Budenberg, Charlotte Cowell, E Harden, Margaret Parker, Elsie Webner, Mary Shaw, Florence Armstrong, Edith Hargreaves, Maude Kelly, M Mellin, Louisa Wade, Mary Wilson, Sarah Harrison, Ada Corbett, Margaret Beggs, Annie Mendelssohn, Hester Beard, Mary Chrimes, Constance Jurgensen.
Honours List 1887 ?88
Former Pupils
Details given of the successes of the following:
Cambridge: Jane Harwood.
Victoria University: Emily Johnson, Marion Ledward, Constance Moore, Beatrice Board, Victorine Jeans, Adelaide Trevor.
Owens College: Beatrice Board, Alice Cooke, Alice Crompton, Emily Johnson, Edith Johnstone, Victorine Jeans, Constance Moore, Amy Mullock, Adelaide Trevor.
Bradford History Scholarship
Alice Cooke
Present Pupils
Details given of the successes of the following: Annie Elliott, Margaret Taylor.
Cambridge Local Examinations, June 1888
Details given of the successes of the following: Mary Windsor, Maud Vernon, Alberta Harden, Eleanor Newton, Madeline Mellin, Margaret Taylor, Emily Baker, Bertha Wigglesworth, Mildred Spencer, Jessie Stephenson, Edith Brayshaw, Effie Gimblett.
Cambridge Junior Local Examinations, December 1887
Details given of the successes of the following: Evelyn Birch, Frances Shaw, Elizabeth Varley, Emily McMichael, Ellen Size, Elizabeth Fleming, Bessie Robinson, Marian Smith.
Oxford Senior Examination
Details given of the successes of the following: Elizabeth Lockett, Florence Rieper.
Exhibitioners
Margaret Lea, Victorine Jeans, Adelaide Trevor.
Scholars
Mary Barnes, Effie Boullen, Edith Griffiths, Jessie Headridge, A Smith, Mary Elizabeth Windsor.
Exhibitioners
Maud Vernon, Mary Elizabeth Windsor, Annie Elliott, Madeline Mellin, Bertha Wigglesworth.
Scholars
VI Form: Alberta Harden, Gertrude Tafel
V Form: Annie Varley
Lower School: Jane Lees
Preparatory School: Lina Seebohm
Pendleton School: Louisa Hugon
Entrance Exam: Agnes Mitton, Annie Nuttall
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, Beatrice Ledward, Florence Le Page.
Edward Donner
Treasurer's Report for the Year Ending 31 August 1888
Details given of the financial state of the school.
Edward Donner
Statement of Accounts from 1 September 1887 to 31 August 1888
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 Exhibition
Details of regulations for the award of the Mary Bradford Exhibition.
Form of Bequest to the School
Proforma of bequeathing money to the school.
Alphabetical Class Lists, July 1888
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 A, IV Middle B, IV Lower, III Upper, III Middle A, III Middle B, III Lower A, III Lower B, Upper Probationary, Lower Probationary.
Lower School: II Upper, II Middle, II Lower, I Upper, I Lower. Preparatory School: Class III, Class II, Class I.
Pendleton School: Class IV, Class III, Class II Upper, Class II Lower, Class I.