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

1894

Governors

Chairman:  Prof A S Wilkins

Deputy Chairman:  Edward Donner

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, Prof H Lamb, the Dean of Manchester, Mrs R H Prestwich, Mrs C E Schwann, Canon Scott, L Tatham, Canon Tonge, Prof T F Tout, Principal Ward, Canon Woodhouse, W B Worthington, Mrs 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

Staff

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

Head Mistress:  Miss Day

Secretary to the Head Mistress:  Miss Pollard

Assistant Mistresses in the Upper School:

Miss Adamson, Miss Bower, Miss Dendy, Miss Gaffron, Miss Ingall, Miss Lawton, Miss Lea, Miss Leach, Miss Macklin, Miss Northrop, Miss Perkins, Miss Rome, Miss Shannon, Miss Simons, Miss Simpson, Miss Steedman, Miss Welch          

Assistant Mistresses in the Lower School:

Miss Harrison, Miss Heap, Miss Hodgkinson, Miss Kett, Miss Rhys, Miss C J Walsh

Visiting Teachers:

 M. V Kastner, the Head Master of the Municipal School of Art and Assistants, Miss Macmillan, Miss Millar, Mrs Byron Cooper, Miss May

 

Chemistry and Physics

"Advanced pupils are admitted to the Owens College classes conducted in the High School buildings under the direction of Professor Dixon MA, FRS and Professor Core MA."

 

Lady Housekeeper 

Miss F E Walsh

 

General Information

The school is for girls aged 6 - 19 and boys aged 6 - 9 who have sisters in the school.

Information given about the following:

school hours, the curriculum, homework, examinations, absence, reports to parents, religious instruction, the library, holidays, school dinners, fees, exhibitions and scholarships, the withdrawal of pupils.

 

Pendleton High School for Girls, Birch Mount, Eccles Old Rd

Teaching Staff

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

Head Mistress:  Miss Butcher

Assistant Mistresses:

Miss Coignou, Miss Cranswick, Miss Lowe, Miss Mortimer, Miss Nall, Miss Rawlinson, Miss Wroe         

Visiting Teachers:

Mlle. Cameron, Miss Wilkinson, Miss Thomas, the Head Master and Assistants of the Municipal School of Art

 

General Information

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 M Higgin, Miss Jessie Houlston, Miss L J Merry, Miss M Mellin       

Visiting Teachers: 

Mlle. Cameron, Miss Enid Jones, Miss E Chartres, the Head Master and Assistants of the Municipal School of Art

 

General Information

The school is for girls aged 6 - 19 and boys aged 6 - 9 whose sisters are pupils in the school.

 

Thomas Darlington, MA, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge

Manchester High School, Examiner's Report

Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

Latin, Greek, German, French, English Language, English Grammar, English Literature, English Composition, English History, Roman History, Political Geography, Political Economy, Dictation.

 

Thomas Darlington, MA, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge

Pendleton High School, Examiner's Report

Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

 Latin, French, German, English History, Roman History, English Literature, English Grammar, English Composition, Political Geography.

 

R H Adie, MA, Trinity College, Cambridge

Manchester High School, Examiner's Report

Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

Botany, Zoology, Chemistry, Physical Geography.

 

R H Adie, MA, Trinity College, Cambridge

Pendleton High School, Examiner's Report

Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

Botany, Zoology, Chemistry, Physical Geography, Geology, Physics.

 

R W Shackle MA, St Catherine's College, Cambridge

Manchester High School, Examiner's Report

Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

Arithmetic, Algebra, Euclid, Trigonometry, Geometrical Conics, Analytical Conics, Mechanics.

 

R W Shackle MA, St Catherine's College, Cambridge

Pendleton High School, Examiner's Report

Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

Arithmetic, Algebra, Euclid, Trigonometry, Geometrical Conics, Analytical Conics.

 

Agnes J Ward, Late Principal of the Maria Grey Training 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.

 

Agnes J Ward, Late Principal of the Maria Grey Training 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, English Grammar, Natural History, Object Lessons, Botany.

 

Agnes J Ward, Late Principal of the Maria Grey Training College

North Manchester High School, Examiner's Report

Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

Arithmetic, Botany, Geography, History, Literature, French, English Grammar, Reading.

 

J S Gill, Certificated Student of Girton College. Maths Tripos

North Manchester High School, Examiner's Report

Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

Euclid, Latin, German.

 

Joseph C Bridge, MA, D Mus, Oxon

Manchester High School, Examiner's Report

Details given of the standards achieved in music.

 

Joseph C Bridge, MA, D Mus, Oxon

Pendleton High School, Examiner's Report

Details given of the standards achieved in music.

 

Isabella Chessar

Manchester High School Examiner's Report, July 1884

Details given of the standards achieved in sewing.

 

Isabella Chessar

Pendleton High School Examiner's Report, July 1884

Details given of the standards achieved in sewing.

 

J H Reynolds

Manchester High School, Examiner's Report

Details given of the standards achieved in drawing.

 

Honours List 1893 - 94

Manchester High School Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

Cambridge:  Jessie Headridge, Edith Wigglesworth.

 

Royal Holloway College:  Agnes Coombs, Helen Redfern, Gertrude Clement, Mary Wilson, Eleanor McDougall.

 

Owens College:  Mary Johnstone.

 

Manchester High School Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

Cambridge Higher Local Examinations, June 1884:  Evelyn Sewell, Jane Lees, Amy Headridge, Rhoda Cowell, Mary Jackson.

 

London Matriculation:  Edith Barratt, Olive Claydon,

 

London Intermediate B Sc:  Edith Beard.

 

Victoria Preliminary:  Helen Fisher, Isa Hiles, Florence Smith, Sarah Lowe.

 

Pendleton High School Former Pupils

Details given of the success of Edith Ward.

 

Pendleton High School Present Pupils

Cambridge Higher Local Examination, December 1893:  Winifred Williams

 

Cambridge Higher Local Examination, June 1894:  Louise Hugon.

 

Oxford and Cambridge Joint Board Higher Certificate Examination, July 1894: Louise Hugon

 

Exhibitioners

[Includes the amount of the award]

Isa Hiles, Louise Hugon, Edith Beard, Evelyn Sewell.

 

Lady Whitworth Exhibition

[Includes the amount of the award]

Rhoda Cowell

 

Scholars

[Includes the amount of the award]

Mary Barnes, Edith Bates, Edith Berry, Charlotte Coates, Lucy Geiler, Mary Higgs, Annie Nuttall, Edith Robinson, Cicely Fox Smith, Agnes Taylor.

 

L Tatham

Statement of Accounts from 1 September 1893 to 31 August 1894

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 1894

Names of girls in the following classes: [includes details of those holding scholarships]

Manchester High School

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

Lower School:  II Upper, II Middle, II Lower, I Upper, I Middle, I Lower, Preparatory Class.

 

Pendleton School

Form VI, V Upper, V Lower, Form IV, III  Upper, III Lower, Form II, Form I.

 

North Manchester School

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
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