Manchester High School For Girls
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Database : School Reports, 1874 - 1952

1889

Governors

Chairman:  Canon Tonge

Deputy Chairman:  Edward Donner

Prof Robert Adamson, Mrs Anson, Mrs E Behrens, E J Broadfield, Mrs Bryce, Mrs R D Darbishire, Prof Harold B Dixon, Miss Gaskell    , Rev J Edward Gull,  

M G Glazebrook, Mrs Glazebrook, Dr Greenwood, Oliver Heywood, Canon Hicks, A P Ledward, Herbert Philips, Mrs C E Schwann, Mrs T A Stowell, L Tatham, Prof A W Ward, Prof Wilkins, Canon Woodhouse

Treasurer:  Mr L Tatham

 

Auditors:  Messrs Halliday, Pearson and Co

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 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 Shannon, 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 Cranswick, Miss Lowe, 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.

 

T Stevens MA, Magdalene College

Examiner's Report, 6 August 1889

Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

Greek, Latin, Greek History, Roman History, Physical Geography, Political Economy.

 

T Stevens MA, Magdalene College

Girls' High School, Pendleton, Examiner's Report, 6 August 1889

Details given of the standards achieved in Latin and Physical Geography.

 

T Woodhouse Levin MA

Examiner's Report, 15 August 1889

Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

History, English Literature, English Grammar, Geography.

 

Norman Hardcastle, MA, LL M, Downing College, Cambridge

Examiner's Report, 28 August 1889

Details given of the standards achieved in French and German.

 

J H Taylor, MA Trinity College, Cambridge, MA Queen's College, Oxford, B Sc London

Examiner's Report, 29 August 1889

Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

Physics, Chemistry, Botany.

 

T J Sanderson, MA, Late Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge

Manchester High School, Examiner's Report, 27 August 1889

General comments given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

Arithmetic, Algebra, Euclid, Mechanics, Trigonometry.

         

T J Sanderson, MA, Late Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge

Pendleton High School, Examiner's Report, 27 August 1889

General comments given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

Reading, French, Recitation.

 

Matilda Penstone, Mistress of Method, Home and Colonial School Society, London

Report of Miss Penstone, 26 August 1889

Preparatory Department:

Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

Physical Training, Grammar, History, Writing, Spelling, Object Lessons.

Upper School:

Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

Writing, Reading, Arithmetic, French, Botany, History, Physical Geography.

Lower School:

Arithmetic, Grammar, French.

Pendleton High School:

Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Grammar, Geography, History, Animal Life, Recitation.              

 

James Taylor, Mus. B, New College Oxford

Report of James Taylor, 31 July 1889

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

Details given of the standards achieved in drawing. Includes detailed comment on the work of Frances Ewan who achieved the highest award for antique drawing "in competition with all the School of Art students in the United Kingdom, a Silver Medal and a Queen's Prize."

 

Government Examination Results

Details given of the successes in drawing of the following: A Craig, Mary Ferguson, E Lea, F Miles, A Ruscoe, D Scott, M Wilson, K Wilkinson, G Wise, A Birch, F Mercer.                     

 

Honours List, 1888 - 89

Details given of the successes of the following: 

Victoria University: Alice Crompton, Amy Mullock, Edith Johnstone, Beatrice Board, Victorine Jeans, Margaret Gill.

 

Owens College:  Alice Cooke, Beatrice Board, Edith Johnstone, Victorine Jeans, Alice Crompton, Amy Mullock, Adelaide Trevor, Annie Elliott, Margaret Gill, Florence Le Page, Sarah Robinson, Lucy Baker.

 

Cambridge Higher Local Examinations, June 1889

Details given of the successes of the following: Margaret Taylor, Alberta Harden, Eleanor Newton, Helen Redfern.

 

Cambridge Junior Local Examinations, December 1888

Details given of the successes of the following: Margaret Andrews, Mary Johnstone, Jessie Keyte, Eleanor Roberts, May Spencer, Jane Swindells.

 

Edinburgh University Local Examinations

Details given of the success of Agnes Coombs.

 

Oxford Women's Examination

Details given of the successes of the following: Annie Truscott, Nellie Size, Margaret Taylor, Eleanor Newton, Ethel Robinson.

 

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.

 

Exhibitioners

Maud Vernon, Mary Elizabeth Windsor, Annie Elliott, Madeline Mellin, Bertha Wigglesworth.     

 

Scholars

Alberta Harden, Louise Hugon, Jane Lees, Agnes Mitton, Annie Nuttall, Lina Seebohm, Gertrude Tafel, Annie Varley.

 

Exhibitioners Elected since the Close of the School Year, 1889

Margaret Taylor, Eleanor Newton, Ethel Robinson.

 

Lady Whitworth Exhibition

Alberta Harden

 

Scholars

VI Form:  Agnes Coombs, Effie Bullock, Frances Shaw              

V Form:  Mary Johnstone    

Lower School: Louise Horkheimer, Fanny Crockwell

Pendleton School:  Dora Griffiths

Entrance Exam:  Gertrude Dean

 

Edward Donner

Treasurer's Report for the Year Ending 31 August 1889

Details given of the financial state of the school.

 

Edward Donner

Statement of Accounts from 1 September 1888 to 31 August 1889

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 1889

Names of girls in the following classes:

Upper School:  Seniors, VI Upper, VI Lower, V Upper, V Lower, Intermediate, IV Upper, IV Middle, IV Lower A, IV Lower B, 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 Upper, Class IV Lower, Class III, Class II Upper, Class II Lower, Class I.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

             

 

                                   

 

 

   
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