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

1905

Frontispiece 

A drawing of the school at Dover St.

 

Governors

Chairman: Prof T F Tout

Deputy Chairman: Edward Donner

Prof S Alexander, Mr E Broadfield, Mrs E T Broadhurst, Mrs F G Buller, Mrs J T Costley, Prof Harold B Dixon, Councillor James Fildes, Miss Gaskell, Canon Hicks, Mrs A Hopkinson, Prof Horace Lamb, 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, Mrs T F Tout         

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 assisted by Miss Simpson

Assistant Mistresses:

Miss Adamson, Miss Bourne, Miss Bush, Miss Clark, Miss Clarkson, Miss Coignou, Miss Dendy, Miss Harrison, Miss Blanche Henry, Miss Lee, Miss Leach, Miss Limebeer, Miss Marten, Miss Moakes, Miss Montgomery, Miss Moore, Miss Mills, Miss Myers, Miss Nuttall, Miss Radford, Miss Rome, Miss Shannon, Miss Sutcliffe, Miss Willis, Miss Edith G Willis

Visiting Teachers:

Miss Edith Robinson, Miss Marie Jones, Mr Isidor Cohn, Mrs Byron Cooper, Miss MacGowan, Miss Wigglesworth, 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

 

Staff

[The academic qualifications of the staff are included]

Head Mistress:  Miss Rosa Patterson

Assistant Mistresses:

Miss Boon, Miss M L Burne, Miss Drummond, Miss Hall, Miss A Hood, Miss Nall, Miss Rawlinson 

Visiting Teachers:

Madame Hahn, Miss H A Burrows, Miss Marie Jones, Miss D Ticehurst

 

The school is for girls over the age of 6 and boys aged 6 - 9 whose sisters are pupils of the school.

 

Honours List, 1904 - 1905

Manchester High School

Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

University of Manchester:  Alice Gowan, Ethel Greengrass, Marion Hargreaves, Annie Hewitt, Mary McNicol, Elsie Redfearn, Frances Steele, Mary Taplen, Emily Howson, Amy Harvey, Sarah Edwards, Katherine Jollie, Eva Newton, Ethel Stafford, Mabel Stephens, Jessie Clarkson, Marion Hawcridge, Emma Titterington, Dora Bauerkeller.

 

University of London:  Mary Higgs, Mildred Taylor.

 

University of Dublin:  Caroline Coignou, Amy Headridge, Jessie Headridge, Annie Nuttall, Lucy Geiler, Mary Hewitt, Elsie Windsor.

 

University of Cambridge:  Lucy Geiler, Elsie Collier, Dorothy Frazer.

 

University of Oxford:  Ethel Harvey, Dorothy Lodge, Mary Hewitt.

 

Present Pupils

Details given of scholarships awarded to the following:

 

Open Scholarships:  Eleanor Harvey, Jeanie McClymont, Minnie Bell.

 

Cambridge Higher Local Examination, 1905:  Amy Green, Dorothy Lamb.

 

University Matriculation [Manchester] 1905:  Minnie Bell, Louise Chaffers, Katherine Hothersall, Bessie Barnes, Ethel Benn, Florence Bentley, Lois Bentz, Mary Boullen, Elsie Bryant, Mabel Byrom, Kate Duffy, Bessie Earnshaw, Jessie Edge, Edith Edwards, Kate Harrisson [sic], Winifred Henry, Lois Lovett, Jane McClymont, Jessie Parish, Hilda Pearson, Elsie Simon, Alice Scott, Annie Turner, Constance Worswick.

 

Examination Qualifying for an Engagement as Pupil Teacher:  Elsie Gough, Kate Harrisson [sic], Mabel Harrop, Eva Worsley.

 

Matriculation University of London:  Edith Edmonds.

 

Manchester Education Committee Bursaries:  Marjorie Pearson, Gladys Protheroe, Eleanor Stevens.

 

Royal Drawing Society:  May Fuller, Annie Turner.

 

Shorthand:  Amy Glover, Ida Matthews, Eva Lloyd-Jones, Mona Proctor, Marjorie Pearson, Irene Burgess, Dorothy Bramwell, Hilda Lowthian [sic], Gertrude Langley, Emmeline Goodrich, Helen Hotson, Kathleen Bailey, Gertrude Langley, Elizabeth Ligat, Edith Fletcher.

 

Typewriting - Society of Arts:  Gertrude Langley.

 

Tonic Sol - Fa College:  Annette Allen, Enid Grundy, Madge Clague.

 

Lancashire and Cheshire Union of Institutes:  Annie Ollerenshaw, Mary Jennison, Mabel Fairbank.

 

Book Presents in Middle Forms:  May Adams, Doris Bailey, Dorothy Barker, Margaret Curtis, Elsie Goodwin, Eleanor Rhodes, Hilda Stansfield, Gwendolen Walker, Constance Grant, Enid Grundy, Irene Hunt, Doris Jones, Edith Latimer, Gladys Mitchell, Doris Pearson, Katherine Ratcliffe, Jessie Stewart, Clarinda Stott, Doris Welch, Lilian Blackstock, May Browning, Hilda Davies, Dorothy Lunt, Ruth Stott, Mary Davies, Merle Jones, Primrose McNicol, Minnie Ogden.

 

Mrs Buller's Prizes for Sewing:  Edith Bradley, Dora Shankland.   

 

Dixon Gymnasium Cup:  Bessie Earnshaw.

 

Parry Junior Gymnastic Cup:  Dorothy Hale.

 

Thring Memorial Cup for Games:  Elsie Simon.

 

Pendleton High School

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

Lancashire County Council:  Mabel Kingsland, Hilda Weaver.

 

Oxford Local Examination:  Helen Cumming, Clara Davies, Eleanor Pearson, Harriet Wallwork, Hilda Weaver, Dorothy Dowler, May Kemp.

 

Royal Drawing Society:  Hilda Weaver

 

Book Presents in Middle Forms: Norah Burgess, May Kemp, Dorothy Bowness, Margaret Bowness, Nellie Crompton, Nesta Berry, Stella Cremer, Freda Matthews, Margaret Pilkington.

 

Gymnasium and Games Challenge Cup:  Eleanor Pearson.

 

Swimming Challenge Cup:  Joan Gerrard.

 

North Manchester High School

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

Joint Matriculation Examination, July 1905:  A Clark, A Livesey, E Speakman, B Strachan.      

 

Free Studentship, Manchester School of Art:  W O?Meara.

 

Oxford Local Examination [Junior]:  D Gaskill.

 

Royal Drawing Society:  A Buckle, E Strachan, D Carter, B Strachan, K Watson, A Buckle.

 

Salford Pupil Teacher Bursary:  Louisa Huxtable, Amy Buckle.

 

Book Presents:  Nellie Holden, Leonore Kletz, Helen Buckle, Ethel Holden, Joyce Hornabrook, May Watson.

 

Worthington Swimming Cup:  Doro [sic] Carter.

 

Exhibitioners

Eleanor Harvey, Dorothy Lamb, Amy Greenhalgh, Muriel Bedson, Gertrude Leach.

 

Lady Whitworth Exhibitioners

Amy Green, Jane McClymont.

 

Music Exhibitions

Muriel Bedson, Annie Cade.

 

Scholars

Ethel Bailey, Louise Chaffers, Annie Ellis, Dorothy Greaves, Isabella Kletz, Judith Jacobs, Hilda Livesey, Anna Matthews, M Metcalf, Sophie Stern, Janie Waters, Clara Davies.

 

Scholar at North Manchester School

Elizabeth Graham

 

L Tatham

Statement of Accounts from 1 September 1904 to 31 August 1905

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 1905

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

Manchester School

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

 

Pendleton School

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

 

North Manchester High School

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
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