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

1904

A drawing of the school at Dover St.

Governors

Chairman:  Prof Horace Lamb

Deputy Chairman:  Edward Donner

Prof S Alexander, Mr E Broadfield, Mrs E T Broadhurst, Mrs F G Buller, Prof Harold B Dixon, Councillor James Fildes, Miss Gaskell, Christopher Heywood, Canon Hicks, Mrs A Hopkinson, the Dean of Manchester, Lady Mather, Councillor Edwin Mather, Mrs L Pilkington [sic], Mrs F H Roby, Mrs C E Schwann, A E Steinthal, L Tatham, Alderman Thompson, Prof T F Tout, Mrs T F Tout, Prof A S Wilkins, W B Worthington, Mrs W B Worthington

Treasurer:  Mr L Tatham

 

Auditors:  Messrs Halliday, Pearson and Co

Clerks to the Governors:  Edwin Marshall, Hubert Teague

 

The Manchester High School for Girls

Staff

[The academic qualifications of the staff are included]

Head Mistress:  Miss S A Burstall

School Secretary:  Miss Pollard

Assistant Mistresses:

Miss Adamson, Miss Bourne, Miss Coignou, Miss Dendy, Miss Drummond, Miss Elliott, Miss Foster, Miss Harrison, Miss Blanche Henry, Miss Lee, Miss Leach, Miss Limebeer, Miss Moakes, Miss Montgomery, Miss Moore, Miss Mills, Miss Nuttall, Miss Rome, Miss Shannon, Miss Simpson, Miss Tafel, Miss Welch, Miss Edith Willis

Visiting Teachers:

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

 

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 Boon, Miss Harrison, Miss Nall, Miss Osbourne, Miss Rawlinson, Miss Wroe

Visiting Teachers:

Miss Tibbits, Miss Marie Jones, Madame Hahn, Miss Field, Miss Howson, Mlle Lutz

 

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

Drawing of North Manchester High School

 

Teaching Staff

[The academic qualifications of the staff are included]

Head Mistress: Miss Rosa Patterson

Assistant Mistresses:

Miss Bauerkeller, Miss Derrick, Miss Hall, Miss Palmer, Miss E M Smith, Miss F Sutcliffe 

Visiting Teachers:

Miss H A Burrows, Miss Ellen Wilkinson, Miss Mary Ellam, Miss H Burrows, Miss Mary Hicks, Miss Anita Tibbits, Miss Ada Collier, Miss Agnes Taylor 

           

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

 

Honours List, 1903 - 1904

Manchester High School

Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

Victoria University of Manchester [Owens College]: Hilda Johnstone, Grace Wigglesworth, Eva Dodge, Jessie Clarkson, Marion Hawcridge, Eva Hollings, Ellen Hadfield, Marion Hargreaves, Mabel Huxley, Annie Latham, Isabel Morris, Eva Newton, Getrude Geiler, Mabel Lakin, Emma Titterington, Muriel Wilson, Alice Oberdorfer, Elsie Royle, Elizabeth Boss, Isa Hiles, Winifred Woodcock, Mary Maclean, F Greenwood, Jessie Clarkson, Dora Bauerkeller, Mary Taplen, Eva Newton.     

 

University of Oxford: Mary Higgs, Irene Knowles, Mildred Spencer, Sarah Reynolds.

 

University of Cambridge:  Mary Hewitt, Lucy Geiler, Mildred Taylor, Agnes Taylor.

 

University of London:  Olive McDougall, Jenny Tait, Sarah Stenhouse

 

Pupil Teachers Entrance Examination:  Emily Bedford, Mary Jalland, Una Pearson.

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

Newnham College - Open Scholarships:  Jane Mutch, Agnes Huxley.

 

The Owens College, Manchester ?Open Scholarships:  Amy Harvey, Ada Neild, Edith Hewitt, Muriel Huxley.

 

Cambridge Higher Local Examination, 1904:  Agnes Huxley, Jane Mutch, Edith Hewitt, Ada Neild, Margaret Lamb, Edith Edmonds.

 

Joint Matriculation of the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds [Victoria Preliminary]:  Lucy Baynes, Edith Edmonds, Dorothy Lamb, Edith Bailey, Muriel Bedson, Edna Byrom, Dorothy Dearden, Elizabeth Earnshaw, Winifred Gowan, Gertrude Leach, Ada Neild, Ruth Rogers, Mabel Stephens, Josephine Worswick.

 

Lancashire County Council:  Louise Chaffers, Hilda Livesey.

 

Manchester Education Committee Bursaries:  Mabel Grime, Katherine Ratcliffe, Winifred Turner, Edith Wheeler.

 

Pupil Teachers Entrance Examination:  Bessie Hough, Edith Kitchin, Edith Panter.

 

Royal Drawing Society of Great Britain and Ireland:  statistics given of successes including that of the following: Jessie Collier.

 

Tonic Sol - Fa College:  statistics given of successes including that of the following: Dora Jackson.

 

Incorporated Society of Shorthand Teachers:  statistics given of successes including those of the following:  Madge Plummer, Edith Fletcher, Elizabeth Ligat, Ethel Syers [sic].

 

Society of Arts Shorthand Examination: Madge Plummer.

 

Certificate for Typewriting:  Edith Fletcher, Elizabeth Ligat, Ethel Syers.

 

Leaving Presents:  Edna Byrom, Dorothy Dearden, Bertha Stenhouse.

 

Book Presents in Middle Forms:  Elsie Bryant, Marjorie Dearden, Elizabeth Ligat, Hilda Livesey, Kathleen Maloney, Constance Stenhouse, Alice Scott, Clarinda Stott, Dorothy Barker, Margaret Curtis, Elsie Dove, Margaret Elias, Elsie Goodwin, Eleanor Rhodes, Ella Wilkinson, Louie [sic] Badger, Doris Bailey, Janet Eastwood, May Fuller, Doris Pearson, Hilda Stansfield, Jessie Stewart, Ruth Stott, Gwendoline Walker, Doris Welch, Dorothy Almond, Isabel Duffy.

 

Miss Buller's Prize for Sewing:  Hilda Ashton.

 

Dixon Gymnasium Cup:  Elsie Eaton.

 

Thring Memorial Cup for Games:  Bertha Stenhouse.

 

Pendleton High School

Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following: Marion Stocks, Annie Walmsley, Katherine Jollie, May Wilson, Elizabeth Needham.

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

Joint Matriculation of the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds [Victoria Preliminary]:  Amy Greenhalgh, Gladys Stone, Amy Green, Margaret Marshall, Margaret Morley, Millicent Orchard.

 

Lancashire County Council:  Edith Gerrard.

 

Salford Education Committee:  Dorothy Dowler, Mabel Kingsland.

 

Royal Drawing Society:  Statistics given of successes.

 

Leaving Present:  Millicent Orchard.

 

Book Presents in Middle Forms:  Clara Davies, Gladys Haworth, Miriam Knowles, Marion Wilkinson, Norah Burgess, May Kemp, Mabel Kingsland, Dorothy Race, Hilda Weaver, Margaret Bowness, Nellie Crompton, Joan Gerrard.

 

Gymnasium and Games Challenge Cup:  Marion Wilkinson.

 

Swimming Challenge Cup:  Barbara Gerrard.

 

Badges of the Humane Society of Salford:  Barbara Gerrard, Agnes Quine.

 

North Manchester High School

Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

Royal College of Music, Manchester:  Theodora Mills, Mignon Raife.

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

Royal Drawing Society:  statistics given of successes including that of the following: Dorothea Carter, Theodora Carter, Winifred O?Meara, Helen Holland, Florence Wilson.

 

Salford Pupil Teacher Bursary:  Ada Clark.

 

Foundation Scholar:  Dorothy Jones.

 

Book Presents: Elizabeth Graham, Joyce Hornabrook, Mary Watson.

 

Exhibitioners

Jane Mutch, Muriel Huxley, Edith Hewitt, Katherine Jollie, Margaret Lamb.

 

Lady Whitworth Exhibition

Amy Harvey, Ada Neild.

 

Music Exhibitions

Muriel Bedson, Annie Cade.

 

Scholars

Gladys Bateman, Edith Edmonds, Edith Gerrard, Katherine Hothersall,  Dorothy Jones, Audrey Lodge, Constance Pearson, Ada Stevens.

 

Scholars at North Manchester School

Blanche Strachan, Ada Clarke, Isabel Carter, Katherine Evans.

 

L Tatham

Statement of Accounts from 1 September 1903 to 31 August 1904

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 1904

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

Manchester School

Senior VI, VI Transitus, V Upper, V A, V B, Secretarial, Housewifery, IV Upper, IV Middle, IV A, IV B, III A, III B, III Middle, Probationary, II Upper, II Middle, Intermediate, II Lower, I Upper A, I Upper B, I Middle, I Lower.

 

Pendleton School

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

 

North Manchester High School

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

 

 

 

 

           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
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