Database : School Reports, 1874 - 1952

1897

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, Canon Hicks, John King, Mrs King, Prof H Lamb, the Dean of Manchester, John Mather, Mrs W Mather, Mrs C E Schwann, 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 Ingall, Miss Kett, Miss Lawton, Miss Leach, Miss Macklin, Miss Perkins, Miss Rome, Miss Rhys, Miss Shannon, Miss Simons, Miss Simpson, Miss Tafel, Miss Thring, 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.

A drawing of Pendleton High School

Teaching Staff

[The academic qualifications of the staff are included]

Head Mistress: Miss Butcher

Assistant Mistresses:

Miss Hickson, Miss Lowe, Miss Nall, Miss Rawlinson, Miss Wenham, Miss Wroe

Visiting Teachers:

Mlle. Cameron, Miss Marie Jones, 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 E Dawson, Miss K Hartley, Miss Jessie Houlston, Miss M Mellin, Miss F Sutcliffe

Visiting Teachers:

Mlle. Cameron, Miss Ellen Wilkinson, Miss Mary Ellam, Miss H Burrows, Miss Ison, Miss Grace Mellin

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

Manchester High School

Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

Cambridge:  Eleanor McDougall, Evelyn Sewell, Jane Lees

Victoria University: Isa Hiles, Helen Fisher, Florence Smith

Oxford: Edith Guest

Manchester Royal College of Music: Jeannette Horkheimer

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

Cambridge Higher Local Examination, June 1897: Constance Taylor,       Mary Barnes, Bertha Smith, Maud Wahltuch, Ruth Taylor, Lily Walker, Edith Smith, Helen Lamb

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

Oxford and Cambridge Local Examination, Lower Certificate:  Lucy Geiler, Hilda Bleasdell.

The Incorporated Society of Professional Musicians Examination, December 1896 and July 1897:  Marion Heathcote, Ruth Kerr, Katherine Turner, Marguerite Ashworth, Maud Elton                

Pendleton High School

Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

Cambridge:  Louisa Hugon

Victoria University:  Ursula Holme

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

Victoria Preliminary, June 1897:  Mabel Elliott, Dorothy Holme, Lillie Needham

College of Perceptors Examination:  Annie Walmsley

Oxford and Cambridge Board, Lower Certificate Examination:  Jeanie Mason, Dorothy Race

North Manchester High School

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

Cambridge Higher Local Examination, June 1897:  E Mallinson

Oxford and Cambridge Examination Board:  May Ogden

Exhibitioners           

Mary Barnes, Constance Taylor, Florence Wilkinson

Lady Whitworth Exhibitioner

Hilda Matthews

Scholars

Isabella Craig, Lilian Gray, Dora Griffiths, Amy Harvey, Christina Hicks, Mary Higgs, Alice Myers, Winifred Stocks.

Scholars at North Manchester School

Statement of Accounts from 1 September 1896 to 31 August 1897

Details of income and expenditure.

Details of regulations for the award of financial assistance with school fees.

Details of regulations for the award of the Lady Whitworth and Mary Bradford Exhibitions.

Proforma of bequeathing money to the school.

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

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, II Upper, II Lower, I Upper, I Middle, I Lower, Preparatory

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

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