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

1902

SCHOOL REPORT 1902

 

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, Christopher Heywood, Canon Hicks, Mrs A Hopkinson, John King, Prof Horace Lamb, the Dean of Manchester, Lady Mather, Mrs L Pilkington [sic], Alderman Robinson, Mrs F H Roby, Mrs C E Schwann, A E Steinthal, L Tatham, Alderman Thompson, Prof T F Tout, Mrs 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 Winifred Bottomley, Miss Bourne, Miss Coignou, Miss Dendy, Miss Drummond, Miss Garrett, Miss Harrison, Miss Hartley, Miss Blanche Henry, Miss Hiles, Miss Ashby Jones, Miss Lee, Miss Leach, Miss Moakes, Miss Montgomery, Miss Moore, Miss Patterson, Miss Rome, Miss Shannon, Miss Simpson, Miss Slater, Miss Tafel, Miss Ruth Taylor, Miss Welch

Visiting Teachers:

Miss Edith Robinson, Miss Marie Jones, Mr Isidor Cohn, Mrs Byron Cooper, Miss MacGowan, Miss Webster, Miss W Faraday, Madame Alice Lamb

 

Lady Housekeeper 

Miss Blanche Henry

 

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 and visits to the museum.  

 

Pendleton High School for Girls, Birch Mount, Eccles Old Rd

Drawing of Pendleton High School

 

Teaching Staff

[The academic qualifications of the staff are included]

Head Mistress:  Miss M Butcher

Assistant Mistresses:

Miss Graham, Miss Hooper, Miss Laidler, Miss Nall, Miss Osbourne, Miss Rawlinson, Miss Wroe

Visiting Teachers:

Miss H A Burrows, Miss Marie Jones, Madame Hahn, Miss Brown, Miss Ison

 

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

Visiting Teachers: 

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

                       

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

 

Honours List 1901 - 1902

Manchester High School

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

Frances Mary Buss Memorial Scholarship:  Caroline Coignou.

 

Victoria University and Owens College:  Kate Blackstock, Ruth Taylor, Dorothy Holme, Hilda Johnstone, Mary Reynolds, Jessie Clarkson, Mary Greengrass, Lilian Musham, Alice Oberdorfer.

 

University of London:  Olive Claydon.

 

Manchester Municipal School of Art:  Estelle S Pankhurst.

 

Royal Manchester College of Music:  Annie Worsley

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford:  Ethel Harvey.

 

The Owens College:  Gertrude Geiler, Annie Hewitt, Mary McNicol, Katharine Barlow.

 

Westfield College, London:  Edith Wainwright.

 

Cambridge Training College:  Gertrude Potter.

 

University of London Intermediate Examination in Arts:  Ada Neild, Elenor [sic] Sheard.

 

Victoria University Preliminary Examination:  Gertrude Geiler, Margaret Byrom, Edith Hewitt, Mabel Lakin, Nellie Meadows, Lizzie Phillips, Rachel Stein, Muriel Wilson.

 

University of Cambridge Higher Local Examination:  Gertrude Potter, Mary McNicol, Gertrude Potter.

 

Lancashire County Council:  Amy Harvey, Nellie Meadows, Ella Harvey, Agnes Spavin, Jessie Parish, Winifred Woollam.

 

College of Preceptors:  Ethel Kerr.

 

Board of Education, South Kensington ? Art:  Constance Moakes, Rachel Stein.

 

Royal Drawing Society of Great Britain and Ireland:  Mary McNicol.       

 

London Institute of Plain Needlework:  Kate Stewart, Grace Ashworth.

 

Incorporated Society of Shorthand Teachers:  Florence Gillespie, Lucy Sherwin, Edith Hewitt, Marguerite Sunderland, Gwen Cooper, May Thompson, Agnes Spavin, Madge Plummer, Maud Sheldon.

 

Society of Arts:  Maud Sheldon, Lucy Sherwin, Marguerite Sunderland.

 

Pitman?s Elementary Examination:  Jeannie Carter, Kathleen Davison, Florence Hetherington, Jeanie McClymont, Mary Murray, Edith Rains.

 

Pendleton High School

Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

Victoria University:  Florence Hindshaw, Dorothy Holme.

 

Oxford High Local Examination:  Ethel Bates.

 

London Matriculation Examination:  Marion Stocks.

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

Victoria Preliminary Examination:  Winifred Stocks.

 

Senior Oxford Local Examination:  Florence Lee Wood.

 

Royal Drawing Society:  Phyllis Lawton.

 

London Institute for the Advancement of Plain Needlework:  statistics given of successes including those of the following: Millicent Orchard, Mary Nichols, Beatrice Noyes

 

Swimming:  Phyllis Lawton, Annie Hahn.              

 

North Manchester High School

Former Pupil

Details given of the success of the following:

Victoria University:  Ruby Palmer.

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

Royal Drawing Society:  statistics given of successes including those of the following: H E Towers, J Parkinson.

 

Exhibitioners

Dorothy Frazer, Ethel Harvey, Alice Gowan, Mary McNicol.

 

Lady Whitworth Exhibitioners

Details given of the financial awards to the following: Katherine Barlow, Frances Steele, Edith Wainwright.

 

Scholars  

Edith Hewitt, Eleanor Harvey, Gladys Stone, Kathleen Bailey, Hilda Livesey, Kathleen Maloney, Estelle Plummer, Nora Simon, Marion Wilkinson.

 

Scholar at North Manchester School

Bessie Scott

 

L Tatham

Statement of Accounts from 1 September 1901 to 31 August 1902

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 1902

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

Manchester School

Seniors, VI Transitus, V Upper, V A, V B, Housewifery, Remove, IV Upper, IV A, IV B, III Upper A, III Upper B, III Middle, II Upper, II Middle, Intermediate, I Upper, I Middle, I Lower.

 

Pendleton School

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

 

North Manchester High School

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

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
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