Governors
Chairman: Canon Tonge
Deputy Chairman: Edward Donner
Prof Robert Adamson, Mrs Anson, Mrs E Behrens, E J Broadfield, Mrs F H Birley, Mrs E T Broadhurst, Mrs R E Cunliffe, Mrs R D Darbishire, Prof Harold B Dixon, Miss Gaskell, Rev J Edward Gull, Mrs J Heelis, Oliver Heywood, Canon Hicks, John King, 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 McCroben, Miss Shannon, Miss Simons, Miss Steedman, Miss Adamson, Miss Cheetham, Miss Dendy, Miss Gaffron, Miss Ingall, Miss Lawton, Miss Leach, Miss Northrop, Miss Perkins, Miss Rome, Miss Simpson, Miss Walker, Miss Welch
Assistant Mistresses in the Lower School:
Miss Kett, Miss Harrison, Miss Hodgkinson, Miss Mellin, Miss Sutcliffe, 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 Coignou, Miss McAulay, Miss Cranswick, Miss Nall
Visiting Teachers:
Mlle. Pelisson, Miss Wilkinson
Mr R H A Willis, Head Master of the Manchester School of Art and Assistants
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
Manchester High School, Examiner's Report, 1 June 1891
Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:
Greek, Latin, French.
T Stevens, MA, Magdalene College
Pendleton High School, Examiner's Report, 1 June 1891
Details given of the standards achieved in Latin and French.
T A Attwater, MA, Pembroke College,
Manchester High School, Examiner's Report, 27 June 1891
Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:
Arithmetic, Euclid, Algebra, Trigonometry, Mechanics, Conic Sections, English History, Roman History, Greek History, Political Geography, Physical Geography, English Grammar, English Language, English Literature, Political Economy, English Composition.
T A Attwater, MA, Pembroke College,
Pendleton High School, Examiner's Report, 27 June 1891
Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:
Arithmetic, Euclid, Algebra, English History, Roman History, Political Geography, Physical Geography, English Grammar, English Literature, Political Economy, English Composition.
E Hamilton Acton, MA, Fellow of St John's College
Manchester High School, Examiner's Report, 16 June 1891
Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:
Chemistry, Physics, Botany.
E Hamilton Acton, MA, Fellow of St John's College
Pendleton High School, Examiner's Report, 16 June 1891
Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:
Chemistry, Geology, Botany.
E Braunholtz, MA, King's College, Cambridge
Examiner?s Report, 15 June 1891
General comments on the standards achieved in German.
S Wood, B Sc
Manchester High School, Examiner's Report
Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:
Reading, Recitation, Spelling, Handwriting, History, Geography, Arithmetic, French, Object Lessons, Grammar.
S Wood, B Sc
Pendleton High School, Examiner's Report
Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:
Reading, Recitation, Spelling, Handwriting, History, Geography, Arithmetic, French, Grammar, Natural Science.
Charles Gardner, Di. Phil. So., and LRAM
Examiner's Report, July 1891
Details given of the standards achieved in music.
Isabella Chessar, London Institute for the Advancement of Plain Needlework
Examiner's Report, July 1891
Details given of the standards achieved in sewing.
R H A Willis, Head Master of the Manchester School of Art
Examiner's Report, 28 September 1891
Details given of the standards achieved in drawing.
Honours List 1890 - 91
Details given of the successes achieved in further education by the following:
Cambridge: Mary Elizabeth Windsor, Bertha Wigglesworth, Maud Vernon.
London: Elizabeth Beard, Gertrude Clement, Eleanor Newton, Agnes Coombs, Emily Reynolds.
Oxford: Edith Robinson
Victoria Degrees: Beatrice Ledward, Elizabeth McGowan, Florence le Page, Lucy Buckley, Victorine Jeans.
Cambridge Local Examination: Gertrude Tafel, Jessie Headridge, Eleanor Roberts, Ethel Burgess, Annie Stowell, Mary Wilson, Jessie Holden, Kathleen Squire.
London [sic]: Gertrude Tafel, Beatrice Knowles, Ellen Davies.
Edinburgh University Local Examination: Annie Varley.
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
Agnes Coombs, Helen Redfern, Elizabeth Beard, Edith Anderson, Jessie Headridge, Jessie Fallows, Beatrice Knowles, Mary Wilson.
Mary Bradford Exhibitioners
Edith Johnstone, Annie Kay, Evelyn Birch.
Lady Whitworth Exhibitioners
Alberta Harden, Gertude Windsor.
Scholars
Mary Barnes, Mary Carson, Jessie Headridge, May Higgs, Dora Hughes, Helen Lamb, Eleanor McDougall, Edith Ward, Effie Boullen, Eva Dodge, Louise Hugon, Jane Lees, Frances Shaw, Emily Taylor, Bertha Varley, Maud Wahltuch, Florence Wilkinson.
L Tatham
Treasurer's Report for the Year Ending 31 August 1891
Manchester and Pendleton High Schools
Details given of the financial state of the schools.
L Tatham
Statement of Accounts from 1 September 1890 to 31 August 1891
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 1891
Names of girls in the following classes:
Upper School: Seniors, VI Upper, V Upper, V Lower, IV Upper A, IV Upper B, IV Middle A, IV Middle B, IV Lower, III Upper A, III Upper B, III Middle A, III Middle B, III Lower, Probationary Upper, Probationary Lower.
Lower School: II Upper, II Middle, II Lower, I Upper.
Preparatory: Class III, Class II, Class I
Pendleton School: Form VI, Form V, IV Upper, IV Lower, III Upper, III Lower, Form II, Form I.