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.