Governors
Chairman: Canon Tonge
Deputy Chairman: Edward Donner
Prof Robert Adamson, Mrs Anson, Mrs E Behrens, E J Broadfield, Mrs E T Broadfield, Mrs F H Birley, Mrs R D Darbishire, Prof Harold B Dixon, Miss Gaskell, Rev J Edward Gull, M G Glazebrook, Mrs Glazebrook, Oliver Heywood, Canon Hicks, A P Ledward, Prof A Milnes Marshall, Mrs C E Schwann, L Tatham, Principal Ward, Prof A S 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 Steedman, Miss Adamson, Miss Cheetham, Miss Dendy, Miss Gaffron, Miss Ingall, Miss Kent, Miss Lawton, Miss Leach, Miss Northrop, Miss Perkins, Miss Rome, Miss Shannon, Miss Simpson, Miss Walker, Miss Welch
Assistant Mistresses in the Lower School:
Miss Kett, Miss Harrison, Miss Herklots, Miss Hodgkinson, Miss Mellin, Miss C J Walsh
Visiting Teachers:
M. V Kastner, Mr Willis, Sergeant Bosward, Miss Macmillan, Miss Millar, Mrs Byron Cooper
Lady Housekeeper
Miss F E Walsh
General Information
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 Coignou, Miss Cranswick, Miss Lowe, Miss Mortimer, Miss Nall, Miss Rawlinson
The school is for girls over the age of 6 and boys aged 6 - 9 whose sisters are pupils of the school.
T J Sanderson, MA, Late Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge
Manchester High School, Examiner's Report, 20 August 1890
Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:
Written Examination
Latin, Greek, Arithmetic, Algebra, Euclid, Trigonometry, Analytical Cones, Geometric Conics.
Oral Examination
Reading, Recitation, French Reading, French Translation.
T J Sanderson, MA, Late Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge
Pendleton High School, Examiner's Report, 20 August 1889
Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:
Written Examination
Latin, Arithmetic, Algebra, Euclid.
Oral Examination
Reading, French, Reading, French Translation.
T Woodhouse Levin MA
Manchester High School, Examiner's Report, 22 August 1890
Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:
Political Economy, Ancient History, Modern History, English Literature, English Grammar, English Composition, Political Geography, Physical Geography
Details given of the standards achieved by the following pupils: Miss Horkheimer [sic], Mary Johnstone, Helen Redfern, Lucy Morris, F Shaw, Mary Wilson, Mary Fisher, Beatrice Scott , Jessie Headridge.
Pendleton High School
Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:
English Language, English Composition, English Literature, Shakespeare, English History, Greek History, Geography
E Hamilton Acton, St John's College Cambridge
Manchester High School, Examiner's Report, 23 August 1890
Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:
Natural Science, Chemistry, Physics, Botany .
E Hamilton Acton, St John's College Cambridge
Pendleton High School, Examiner's Report, 23 August 1890
Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:
Natural Science, Chemistry, Physics, Botany .
Norman Hardcastle, MA, LL M, Downing College, Cambridge
Manchester and Pendleton High Schools, Examiner's Report, 31 August 1890
Details given of the standards achieved in French and German.
S Wood, B Sc London, Formerly Head Mistress of Bath High School, now Vice Principal of Cambridge Training College for Women Teachers
Manchester High School, Examiner?s Report, 11 August 1890
Details given of standards achieved in the following subjects:
English Reading, English Recitation, Writing, Spelling, Arithmetic, Grammar, French, Botany, History, Geography, Object Lessons.
Details given of the standards achieved by the following: D Cheetham, A Sutcliffe, J Bennett, K Susmann, C Schnelle, D Goodwin, M Baron, C Williams, E Boss, A Jack, M Baines, G Robinson, S Mottram, J Mottram, E Jackson, J Platt, E Lockwood, C Richards, M Hartley, K Beatty, E Dodge, T Myers, C Gordon, E Oldham, A Wilson, T Garazi, E Kitchen, May Higgs, V Guttenburg, M Wallace, W Bauerkeller, J Boon.
S Wood, B Sc London, Formerly Head Mistress of Bath High School, now Vice Principal of Cambridge Training College for Women Teachers
Pendleton High School, Examiner's Report, 11 August 1890
Details given of standards achieved in the following subjects:
Reading, Recitation, Writing, Spelling, Arithmetic, Natural History, Grammar, Geography, History, French.
Details given of the standards achieved by the following: N Grierson, D Holme, F Wilkinson, A Griffiths, M Lewis, A Whitaker, L Johnson.
James H Taylor, MA Trinity College, Cambridge, MA Queen's College, Oxford, B Sc London
Manchester and Pendleton High Schools, Examiner's Report, 31 July 1890
Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:
Physics, Chemistry, Botany.
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.
Details given of the successes of the following: Frances Ewan, Ada Corbett.
Results, Drawing Examination, South Kensington, May 1890
Details given of the successes of the following: J Craig, F Hardy, B Murgatroyd, J Mellor, M Watson, B Vernon, A Robinson, E Clement, E Horkheimer, M Fisher, E Seanor, E Sewell, M Campbell, L Woodham, E Hulme, E Winder, E Woodham, C Hasleham, A Wainwright, E Mercer.
Honours List, 1889 - 90
Details given of the successes of the following: Margaret Birley, Annie Truscott, Margaret Lea, Caroline Coignou, Frances Bevan, Amy Mullock, Alice Cooke, Alberta Harden, E Wigglesworth, E Robinson, F Le Page, Victorine Jeans, M Mellin, E McGowan, A Lawton, A Trevor, M Gill.
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Cambridge Higher Local Examination
Details given of the success of Maria Headridge.
London Matriculation
Details given of the successes of the following: Emily Reynolds, Eleanor Newton.
Victoria Degrees
Details given of the successes of the following: Alice Cooke, Adelaide Trevor.
Ordinary Degree
Details given of the success of Margaret Gill.
Cambridge Higher Local Examination
Details given of the successes of the following: Evelyn Birch, Ethel Burgess, Jessie Fallows, Jessie Headridge, Helen Redfern, May Wilson, Elsie Woodhouse.
Edinburgh University Local Examination
Details given of the success of Effie Bullock.
London Matriculation
Details given of the successes of the following: Elizabeth Beard, Gertrude Clement, Gertrude Tafel, Effie Boullen, Lucy Morris, Elsie Clarke, Harriet Shaw, Elinor [sic] Silvester, Ella Southern, Jessie Holden, Agnes Coombs, Helen Redfern.
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
Margaret Taylor, Eleanor Newton, Ethel Robinson.
Lady Whitworth Exhibition
Alberta Harden
Scholars
Effie Bullock, Agnes Coombs, Fanny Crockwell, Gertrude Dean, Dora Griffiths, Louise Horkheimer, Annie Hughes, Mary Johnstone, Frances Shaw.
Exhibitioners
Agnes Coombs, Helen Redfern, Elizabeth Beard, Edith Anderson.
Mary Bradford Exhibition
Evelyn Birch
Scholars
VI Form: Jessie Headridge
V Form: Eleanor McDougall
Lower School: Mary Barnes, Helen Lamb
Preparatory School: May Higgs
Pendleton School: Edith Ward
Entrance Exam: Mary Casson
L Tatham
Treasurer's Report for the Year Ending, 31 August 1890
Manchester and Pendleton High Schools
Details given of the financial state of the schools.
L Tatham
Statement of Accounts from 1 September 1888 to 31 August 1890
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 Lady Whitworth and Mary Bradford Exhibitions
Details of regulations for the award of the Lady Whitworth and Mary Bradford Exhibitions.
Form of Bequest to the School
Proforma of bequeathing money to the school.
Alphabetical Class Lists, July 1890
Names of girls in the following classes:
Upper School: Seniors, VI Upper, VI Lower, V Upper, V Middle, V Lower, IV Upper A, IV Upper B, IV Middle A, IV Middle B, IV Lower, III Upper A, III Upper B, III Middle, 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 V, Class IV Upper, Class IV Lower, Class III, Class II, Class I Upper, Class I Lower.