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

1900

Frontispiece 

A drawing of the school at Dover St.

 

Governors

Chairman:  Prof A S Wilkins

Deputy Chairman:  Edward Donner

Mr E Broadfield, 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 M G Pilkington, Mrs C E Schwann, A E Steinthal, L Tatham, Prof T F Tout, 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 Bourne, Miss Coignou, Miss Dendy, Miss Drummond, Miss Harrison, Miss Hartley, Miss Blanche Henry, Miss Lawton, Miss Leach, Miss Moakes, Miss Patterson, Miss Rome, Miss Shannon, Miss Slater, Miss Simpson, Miss Smale, Miss Tafel, Miss Welch          

Visiting Teachers:

Madame De Pourtales, Miss Marie Jones, Mr Isidor Cohn, Miss Macmillan, Miss Millar, Mrs Byron Cooper, Fraulein Bruhn, Miss Edith Robinson, Miss Isa Hiles. Miss Duffield

 

Lady Housekeeper 

Miss F E Walsh

 

Boarding House

Miss A Shannon receives pupils as boarders at 1 Addison Terrace, Victoria Park.

 

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, morning prayers, homework, school reports to parents, the library, school dinners, examinations, exhibitions and scholarships, absence, holidays, uniform, 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, Miss Wroe

Visiting Teachers:

Mlle. Cameron, Miss Marie Jones, Madame Hahn, Miss Duffield

 

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 A M Cholmeley, Miss E Dawson, Miss M Grindley, Miss F Sutcliffe, Miss Tanner, Miss Turing, Miss Webb

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 1899 - 1900

Manchester High School

Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

Victoria University: Isa Hiles, Gertrude Dean, Mary Hall.

 

University of Cambridge:  Constance Taylor, Mary Barnes.

 

The Owens College:  Eva Dodge, Emily Taylor, Hilda Johnstone.

 

Newnham College:  Edith Smith.

 

Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board, Higher Certificate: Cynthia Kelley.

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

University of London, Intermediate Examination in Arts: Elizabeth Edwards.

 

Cambridge Higher Local Examination:  Elizabeth Edwards, Mary Hewitt, Agnes Collier, Agnes Taylor.

 

Victoria University Preliminary Examination:  Jessie Clarkson, Ethel Greengrass, Ethel Harvey, Mary Hewitt, Dorothy Lodge, Mary Reynolds, Mary Taplen

 

Matriculation, University of London:  Dorothy Frazer, Sarah Stenhouse, Edith Wainwright.

 

University of Glasgow, Preliminary Examination: Hilda Macalpine.

 

Oxford and Cambridge Schools Certificate Board Higher Certificate:  Ethel Dean.

 

Responsions, University of Oxford:  Irene Knowles.

 

Senior Oxford Local Examination, December 1899:  Gertrude Geiler.

 

College of Preceptors:  Isabella Craig, Clara Walker, Jessie Evans, Dorothy Standring, Grace Crabtree, Beatrice Shaw.

 

Lancashire County Council:  Ethel Harvey, Dora Griffith.

 

Royal Drawing Society:  Elsie Redfearn.

 

London Institute for the Advancement of Plain Needlework: statistics given of successes including references to the following: Dora Allen, Grace Ashworth, Lucy Sternfeld,, Maggie Worsley.

 

National Society of Shorthand Teachers, Elementary Grade:  Marguerite Sunderland, Elsie Collier, Grace Crabtree, Annie Hewitt, Lilian Musham, Emily Ogden, Beatrice Shaw, Muriel Vaughan, Beatrice Yeats.

 

Pendleton High School

Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

Cambridge University:  Florence Wilkinson           

 

Victoria University:  Lillie Needham, Mabel Elliott                      

 

Cambridge Higher Local Examination:  Ethel Bates, Bertha Hymers

 

Victoria Preliminary:  Florence Hindshaw

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

Cambridge Higher Local Examination:  Lilian Gray, Marion Stocks.

 

Oxford Senior Examination:  Hilda Brighouse, Lucy Jeans, Winifred Stocks, Marie Willis.

 

Royal Drawing Society: statistics given of successes including reference to the following: Edith Bowes.

 

London Institute for the Advancement of Plain Needlework: statistics given of successes including references to the following: Marion Stocks, Winifred Stocks, Florence Lee Wood

 

Swimming:  Marie Willis, Lily Kay, Winifred Wiles, Mary Popplewell

 

North Manchester High School

Former Pupils

Details given of the success of the following:

Victoria University:  Ruby Palmer

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

Cambridge Higher Local Examination:  Charlotte Coates

 

Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board:  Georgina Crook, Amy Holbrook.

 

Exhibitioners           

Elizabeth Edwards, Agnes Collier, Irene Knowles, Lilian Gray, Constance Taylor.

 

Lady Whitworth Exhibitioners

Details given of the financial awards to the following:

Mary Reynolds, Mary Taplen.

 

Scholars

Ethel Harvey, Sarah Stenhouse, Louise Chaffers, Dorothy Lamb, Ethel Bailey, Winifred Stocks, Gladys Stone, Mary Nanson, Constance Watson.

 

Scholars of North Manchester School

Emily Kay, Nancy Maud Stelling.

 

L Tatham

Statement of Accounts from 1 September 1899 to 31 August 1900

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.

 

Manchester High School and Pendleton High School

Regulations for Junior Scholarships

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

 

North Manchester High School

Regulations for Scholarships

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

 

Form of Bequest to the School

Proforma of bequeathing money to the school.

 

Alphabetical Class Lists, July 1900

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

Manchester School

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

 

Pendleton School

Form VI, V a, V b, Form IV, Form III a, III b, Form II, Form I.

 

North Manchester School

VI, V a, V b, IV a, IV b, III a, III b, II, I.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
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