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

1892

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, 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, W B Worthington

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 Dolby, Miss McCroben, Miss Shannon, Miss Simons, Miss Steedman, Miss Adamson, Miss Dendy, Miss Gaffron, Miss Ingall, Miss Lawton, Miss Leach, Miss Macklin, Miss Northrop, Miss Perkins, Miss Rome, Miss Simpson, 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, Head Master of the Manchester Municipal School of Art and Assistants, 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

Teaching Staff

[The academic qualifications of some of the staff are included]

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.

 

North Manchester High School for Girls, Northumberland St. Broughton

Teaching Staff

[The academic qualifications of some of the staff are included]

Head Mistress:  Miss Edith Clarke

Assistant Mistresses:

Miss Alice Greenwood, Miss Jessie Houlston, Miss L J Merry        

Visiting Teachers:

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 in the school.

 

Meeting in the Free Trade Hall

Detailed description of Speech Day.

Among those present were the following: Canon Tonge, Rev Dr Jessop, H J Roby MP, Miss Day, Miss Butcher, Miss Edith Clarke, Prof A S Wilkins.

Detailed account of the speech by A S Wilkins in which he reviewed the history of Manchester High School, Pendleton High School and North Manchester High School.

References made to the following: Bishop Fraser, R D Darbishire, Dean Cowie, Edward Donner, Mrs Roby, Canon Hicks.

The music was conducted by Miss Mortimer and Mrs Byron Cooper. Details given of the songs.           

 

T Stevens, MA, Magdalene College

Manchester High School, Examiner's Report, June 1892

Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

Greek, Latin, French.

 

T Stevens, MA, Magdalene College

Pendleton High School, Examiner?s Report, June 1892

Details given of the standards achieved in Latin and French.

 

T A Attwater, MA, Pembroke College,

Manchester High School, Examiner's Report, 29 June 1892

Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

Arithmetic, Euclid, Algebra, Trigonometry, Mechanics, Geometric Conics, Analytical Conics, Differential Calculus, 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, 29 June 1892

Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

Arithmetic, Euclid, Algebra, History, Geography, English Grammar, English Literature, English Language, English Composition.

 

E Hamilton Acton, MA, Fellow of St John's College

Manchester High School, Examiner's Report, 24 June 1892

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, 24 June 1892

Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

Chemistry, Geology, Botany, Physics, Physical Geography.

 

E Braunholtz, MA, King's College, University Lecturer in French

Manchester and Pendleton High Schools, Examiner's Report, 28 June 1892

General comments on the standards achieved in German.

 

P R L Hodge, Certificated Student, Girton College

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.

 

P R L Hodge, Certificated Student, Girton College

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, Object Lessons.

 

Charles Gardner, Di. Phil. So., and LRAM

Examiner's Report, July 1892

Details given of the standards achieved in music.

 

Honours List, 1891 ? 92

Details given of the successes in further education of the following:

Cambridge:  Margaret Taylor.

 

Women?s Department of Owens College, Victoria Degrees:  Ethel Robinson, Florence Le Page, Alice Cooke, Victorine Jeans.       

 

Royal Holloway College:  Helen Redfern, Elizabeth Beard, Gertrude Clement, Agnes Coombs, Alberta Harden. 

 

University College, Aberystwith:  Emily Reynolds.

 

Cambridge Higher Local Examination: Effie Boullen, Lucy Morris, Frances Shaw, Gertrude Tafel, Annie Varley.

 

London [sic]: Edith Beard, Eleanor McDougall, Gertrude Tafel.

 

Victoria Preliminary: Mary Johnstone.        

 

Entrance Scholarship, Firth College, Sheffield: Jane Jones

 

Pendleton High School

Cambridge Higher Local Examination, June 1892

Details given of the successes of the following:  Janet Gibb, Maud Higson, Ursula Holme, Winifred Williams, Jessie Holden.

 

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           

Effie Bullock, Gertrude Tafel, Frances Shaw, Annie Varley.

 

Lady Whitworth Exhibitioners

Mary Johnstone.

 

Scholars

Olive Claydon, Florence Hindshaw, Nellie McGrath, Lucy Morris, Ethel Mott, Elizabeth Needham, Edith Smith, Lilian Squire, Ethel Taylor.

 

L Tatham

Statement of Accounts from 1 September 1891 to 31 August 1892

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 1892

Names of girls in the following classes:

Upper School:  Seniors, VI, V Upper, V Lower, IV Upper A, IV Upper B, IV Middle A, IV Middle B, IV Middle C, IV Lower, III Upper, III Middle A, III Middle B, III Lower, Probationary.

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 Middle, IV Lower, III Upper, Form III, II Upper, II Lower, Form I Upper, Form I Lower.

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

             

   
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