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

1899

Frontispiece 

A drawing of the school at Dover St.

 

Governors

Chairman:  Prof A S Wilkins

Deputy Chairman:  Edward Donner

Mrs E Behrens,  Mrs E T Broadhurst, Mrs F G Buller, Prof Harold B Dixon, Miss Gaskell, Canon Hicks, Mrs A Hopkinson, John King, Mrs King, Prof Horace Lamb, the Dean of Manchester, John Mather, Mrs W Mather, Mrs L Pilkington, Mrs C E Schwann, L Tatham, Prof T F Tout, A A G Tulloch, 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 S A Burstall

Secretary to the Head Mistress:  Miss Pollard

Assistant Mistresses in the Upper School:

Miss Adamson, Miss Coignou, Miss Dendy, Miss Drummond, Miss Harrison, Miss Hartley, Miss Lawton, Miss Leach, Miss Macklin, Miss Moakes, Miss Perkins, Miss Rome, Miss Shannon, Miss Slater, Miss Simpson, Miss Smale, Miss Tafel, Miss Thring, Miss Walsh, Miss Welch          

Visiting Teachers:

Madame De Pourtales, Miss Marie Jones, Miss W Faraday, Miss Macmillan, Miss Millar, Mrs Byron Cooper, Miss May, Miss Edith Robinson

 

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 Hickson, Miss Ison, Miss Lowe, Miss McAulay, Miss Nall, Miss Neild, Miss Rawlinson, Miss Ward            

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

Teaching Staff

[The academic qualifications of the staff are included]

Head Mistress: Miss Edith Clarke

Assistant Mistresses:

Miss E Dawson, Miss Jessie Houlston, Miss M Mellin, Miss Ross, Miss F Sutcliffe, Miss Turing

Visiting Teachers:

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

                       

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

 

Honours List 1898 - 99

Manchester High School

Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

Victoria University:  Eleanor Roberts, Kate Blackstock, Gertrude Dean.

 

University of Cambridge:  Annie Nuttall, Helen Lamb, Beatrice Thirlwall.

 

Cambridge Higher Local Examination:  Ruth Taylor, Lily Walker.

 

Victoria University Preliminary Examination:  Ruth Taylor.

 

Lancashire County Council Commercial Scholarship:  Marie Uttley.

 

Public Appointments:  Alice Crompton, Margaret Taylor.

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

Cambridge Higher Local Examination:  Mildred Taylor, Agnes Collier, Mary Kingsland Higgs, Mary Reynolds, Agnes Taylor.

 

Matriculation, University of London:  Elizabeth Edwards, Mary Kingsland Higgs.

 

Open Scholarships:  Mildred Taylor, Dorothy Holme, Mary Kingsland Higgs, Edith Harvey, Dora Griffiths.

 

Pendleton High School

Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

Victoria University:  Ursula Holme, Edith Ward, Lillie Needham, Florence Hindshaw

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

Cambridge Higher Local Examination, 1899: Ethel Bates, Nora Barrett, Lilian Gray, Bertha Hymers.

 

London Institute for the Advancement of Plain Needlework: Eveline Orchard, Winifred Stocks, Florence Wood.

 

Royal Drawing Society Examination: Marion Stocks, Marie Willis.

 

Swimming

The Silver Championship Cup presented by Mr Popplewell was won by Marie Willis

 

North Manchester High School

Details given of the successes of the following:

Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board: Charlotte Coates, Ruby Palmer, Georgina Crook, Edith Robinson.      

 

Exhibitioners           

Mary Higgs, Dorothy Holme, Mildred Taylor, Ethel Bates.

 

Scholars

Dorothy Fraser, Lucy Geiler, Winifred Gowan, Eleanor Harvey, Muriel Huxley, Lucy Jeans, Mary Nicholls.

 

Scholars at North Manchester School

Details given of scholarships awarded to the following:

Dora Mills, Ethel Freeman.

 

L Tatham

Statement of Accounts from 1 September 1898 to 31 August 1899

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 1899

Names of girls in the following classes in descending order. [Details given of those who hold scholarships]

Manchester School

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

 

Pendleton School

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

 

North Manchester School

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

 

 

           

 

 

   
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