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

1895

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, 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, 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 Coignou, Miss Dendy, Miss Harrison, Miss Heap, Miss Hodgkinson, Miss Ingall, Miss Kett, Miss Lawton, Miss Lea, Miss Leach, Miss Macklin, Miss Perkins, Miss Rome, Miss Rhys, Miss Shannon, Miss Simons, Miss Simpson, Miss Sutcliffe, Miss Tafel, Miss Walsh, Miss Welch       

Visiting Teachers:

Madame Dixon - Aegerter, 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:

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, Birch Mount, Eccles Old Rd

Teaching Staff

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

Head Mistress:  Miss Butcher

Assistant Mistresses:

Miss Skues, Miss Hickson, 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

 

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 Lily J Merry, Miss M Mellin     

Visiting Teachers:

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

 

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

 

Alfred S West, MA, Trinity College.

Manchester High School Examiner's Report, 10 June 1895

Details given of standards achieved in the following subjects:

English Language, English History, French History, Roman History, Political Economy, Composition, English Literature, Political Geography.                

 

Alfred S West, MA, Trinity College.

Pendleton High School Examiner's Report, 10 June 1895

Details given of standards achieved in the following subjects:

English Language, English History, Roman History, Composition,   English Literature, Political Geography.      

 

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

Manchester High School, Examiner's Report, 30 June 1895

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, 30 June 1895

Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

Arithmetic, Algebra, Euclid, Mechanics.

 

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.

 

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.

 

R H Adie, MA, Trinity College, Cambridge

Manchester High School, Examiner's Report, 15 June 1895

Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

Botany, Chemistry, Physical Geography.

 

R H Adie, MA, Trinity College, Cambridge

Pendleton High School, Examiner's Report, 15 June 1895

Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

Botany, Chemistry, Physical Geography, Physics.

 

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

Manchester High School, Examiner's Report, 17 July 1895

Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

Reading, Recitation, History, Geography, Arithmetic, French, Grammar.

 

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

Pendleton High School, Examiner's Report, 17 July 1895

Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

Reading, Recitation, History, Physical Geography, Arithmetic, French,

Natural History, Dictation.             

 

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

North Manchester High School, Examiner's Report, 17 July 1895

Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

Arithmetic, Botany, Geography, History, Literature, French, Grammar, Reading, Object Lessons.

 

E J Gross and P E Matheson

Manchester High School, Report of the Oxford and Cambridge Schools' Examination Board, 28 August 1895

Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

French Grammar, French Composition, Translation, Arithmetic, Geometry, Algebra, English Grammar, English Literature, History Outlines, History ? Special Period.

 

Mons. E L Naftel

Pendleton High School, Report of the Oxford and Cambridge Schools' Examination Board, 28 August 1895

Details given of the standards achieved in the following subjects:

French Grammar, French Translation, French Composition, Arithmetic, Geometry, Algebra, English Grammar, English Composition, Dictation, English Literature, History Outlines, History ? Special Period, Geography.

 

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.

 

Joseph C Bridge, MA, D Mus, Oxon

North Manchester High School, Examiner's Report

Details given of the standards achieved in music.

 

Richard Glazier

Manchester, Pendleton and North Manchester High Schools, Examiner's Report

Details given of the standards achieved in art.

 

Isabella Chessar, London Institute for the Advancement of Plain Needlework

Manchester High School Examiner's Report

Details given of the standards achieved in sewing.

 

Isabella Chessar, London Institute for the Advancement of Plain Needlework

Pendleton High School Examiner's Report

Details given of the standards achieved in sewing.

 

Honours List 1894 - 95

Manchester High School

Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

Appointments:  Beatrice Holme, Edith Brierley      

 

Cambridge: Getrude Tafel, Effie Bullock            

 

Victoria University: Mary Johnstone, Annie McDonald, Minnie Brown

 

Royal Holloway College:  Frances Shaw, Eleanor McDougall        

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

London Matriculation:  Winifred Wigglesworth, Dorothea Popplewell                

 

Victoria Preliminary, 1895:  Elizabeth Boss, Cecil [sic] Callender, Dorothea Popplewell

 

Cambridge Higher Local Examination:  Annie Nuttall, Amy Headridge, Beatrice Thirlwall, Mary Jackson, Helen Lamb

 

Oxford and Cambridge Examination Board, Lower Certificate:  Elsie Cann, Annie Deas, M E Luffman, Edith Smalley, Lily Walker

 

Pendleton High School

Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

Cambridge:  Louise Hugon

 

Owens College:  Edith Ward, Ethel Griffiths

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the success of Sarah Potts.

 

Exhibitioners           

Olive Claydon, Winifred Wigglesworth, Sarah Potts, Elizabeth Boss

 

Mary Bradford Exhibitioner

Cecil [sic] Callender

 

Scholars

Constance Taylor, Edith Smith, Emily Taylor, Jeannie Mason, Edith Wainwright, Ethel Dean, Winifred Bedale, Hilda Brighouse, Florence Wilkinson.

 

L Tatham

Statement of Accounts from 1 September 1894 to 31 August 1895

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 1895

Names of girls in the following classes: [Includes details of those who held scholarships]

 

Manchester 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 Upper C, III Middle, III Lower, Probationary.

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

 

Pendleton School

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

 

North Manchester School

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
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