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

1890

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

             

 

                                   

 

 

 

 

 

   
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