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

1896

Frontispiece 

A drawing of the school at Dover St.

 

Governors

Chairman:  Prof A S Wilkins

Deputy Chairman:  Edward Donner

Mrs Anson, Mrs E Behrens, E J Broadfield, 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 Lambm, the Dean of Manchester, Mrs W Mather, 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 the staff are included]

Head Mistress:  Miss Day

Secretary to the Head Mistress:  Miss Pollard

Assistant Mistresses in the Upper School:

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

Visiting Teachers:

Madame De Pourtales, Miss Marie Jones, 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

A drawing of Pendleton High School

 

Teaching Staff

[The academic qualifications of the staff are included]

Head Mistress:  Miss Butcher

Assistant Mistresses:

Miss Skues, Miss Hickson, Miss Lowe, Miss Nall, Miss Rawlinson, Miss Wroe,

Visiting Teachers:

Mlle. Cameron, Miss Wilkinson, Madame Hahn

 

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

A drawing of North Manchester High School

 

Teaching Staff

[The academic qualifications of the staff are included]

Head Mistress:  Miss Edith Clarke

Assistant Mistresses:

Miss S Alcock, Miss Jessie Houlston, Miss M Mellin, Miss F E Sutcliffe

Visiting Teachers:

Mlle. Cameron, Miss Ellen Wilkinson, Miss N Wilkinson, Miss E Chartres, Miss Ison     

                      

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

 

Honours List, 1895 - 96

Manchester High School

Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

Appointment:  Margaret Lea

 

Cambridge:  Effie Bullock, Lucy Morris, Effie Boullen, Lily Varley

 

Victoria University: Eleanor Roberts, Mary Tout [nee Johnstone]

 

Royal Holloway College:  Edith Beard, Edith Guest, Eleanor McDougall

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

Victoria Preliminary, June 1896:  May Hartley, Kate Blackstock, Gertrude Dean

 

Cambridge Higher Local Examination, June 1896:  Louise Horkheimer, Annie Nuttall, Beatrice Thirlwall, Helen Lamb, Mary Barnes, Bertha Smith

 

Oxford and Cambridge Examination  Board, Higher Certificate: Lily Walker, Emily Taylor, Eva Hollings, Maud Wahltuch

 

Oxford and Cambridge Examination  Board, Lower Certificate: Olive Latham, Elsie Mack, Annie Redfern

 

The Incorporated Society of Musicians Summer Examination, 1896: Cicely Knowles, Marian Heathcote, Dorothy Russell, Marjory Russell, Marjory Renny, Ada Renshaw, Annie Barnes, Edith Winder, Maud Elton, Annie Godbert

 

Pendleton High School

Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

Victoria University: Ursula Holme, Edith Ward, Sarah Potts, Ethel Griffiths

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the success of the following:

Oxford and Cambridge Higher Local Examination: Florence Wilkinson

 

North Manchester High School

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination:  N Mann, E Mallinson, M Thorp

 

Exhibitioners           

Louise Horkheimer, Annie Nuttall, Helen Lamb, May Hartley

 

Lady Whitworth Exhibitioner

Gertrude Dean

 

Scholars at North Manchester School

Edith Robinson, Annie Lakin

 

Scholars

Maud Bailey, Mary Dodds, Annie Hewitt, Dorothy Holme, Mabel Huxley, Lucy Meek, Mildred Taylor, Maud Wahtuch

 

L Tatham

Statement of Accounts from 1 September 1895 to 31 August 1896

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 1896

Names of girls in the following classes. [Includes details of those who hold scholarships]

Manchester School

Seniors, VI, V Upper, V Lower, IV Upper A, IV Upper B, IV Middle, IV Lower, III Upper A, III Upper B, III Middle, III Lower A, III Lower B, II Upper, II Middle, II Lower, I Upper, I Lower, Preparatory.

 

Pendleton School

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

 

North Manchester School

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
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