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

1906

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, Miss M Heywood, 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, Sir William Stephens, L Tatham, Alderman Thompson, Mrs T F Tout, Prof F E Weiss

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 Booth, Miss Burras, Miss Clark, Miss Coignou, Miss Dendy, Miss Frimston, Miss Harrison, Miss Haskins, Miss Henry, Miss Johnstone, Miss Marie Jones, Miss Lee, Miss Leach, Miss Lilley, Miss Limebeer, Miss Marten, Miss Moakes, Miss Montgomery, Miss Moore, Miss Myers, Miss Nuttall, Miss Radford, Miss Robertson, Miss Rome, Miss Sutcliffe, Madame Touhikian, Miss Wigglesworth, Miss Willis, Miss Edith G Willis

Visiting Teachers:

Miss Edith Robinson, Mr Isidor Cohn, Mrs Byron Cooper, 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 Gowan, Miss Hall, Miss A Hood, Miss Jay, Miss Pears, 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, 1905 - 1906

Manchester High School

Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

University of Manchester:  Jessie Clarkson, Marion Hawcridge, Annie Hewitt, Grace Wigglesworth, Mary Reynolds, Mary Taplen, Emily Taylor, Winifred Woollam, Emma Titterington, Eva Newton, Dora Bauerkeller, Isabel Morris, Sarah Edwards, Katherine Jollie, Ethel Stafford, Christabel Pankhurst, Emily Taylor, Bessie Barnes, Muriel Bedson, Minnie Bell, Elizabeth Earnshaw, Edith Edwards, Amy Green, Jeanie McClymont, Ruth Rogers, Constance Worswick,  Josephine Worswick, Mary McNicol, Alice Oberdorfer, Elsie Royle, Mabel Huxley, Gertrude Geiler.

 

University of London:  Margaret Lamb, Hilda Lloyd - Jones, Mary Higgs.

 

University of Dublin:  Jane Beggs, Margaret Lea, Effie Bullock, Maud Vernon, Edith Wigglesworth, Bertha Wigglesworth.

 

University of Cambridge:  Jane Mutch, Dorothy Lamb.

 

University of Oxford:  Ethel Harvey.

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

Open Scholarships:  Edith Edmonds, Louise Chaffers, Elsie Simon, Ethel Bailey, Mildred Mabel.

 

Matriculation, Universities of Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool and Leeds:  Hilda Livesey, Carrie Morrison, Theodora Pitt, Constance Stenhouse, Robena Craig, Gladys Dixey, Sprinzie [sic] Epstein, Philippa Esdaile, Elizabeth Graham, Mabel Grime, Maude Molyneaux, Dora Royle, Winifred Turner, Florence Wright.

 

Cambridge Higher Local Examination 1906:  Gwen Walker, Nellie Stott, Lois Bentz.

 

Examination Qualifying for Engagement as Pupil Teachers: Margaret Curtis, Ada Gaul, Constance Grant, Mabel Grime, Ida Harrop, Mabel Hancock, Annie Michaelson, Mabel Molyneaux, Katherine Ratcliffe, Winifred Turner, Edith Wheeler, Helena Ogden, Beatrice Cash, Mary Whitehead, Muriel Entwistle, Olive Pearson, Ethel Thompson, Lucy Wormell.

 

Scholarships and Exhibitions:  May Adams, Bessie Hough, Gladys Cliffe.

 

Royal Drawing Society:  Statistics given of successes including those of the following:  Lois Bentz, May Fuller, Doris Jones.

 

Shorthand:  statistics given of successes including those of the following:  Amy Glover, Ida Matthews.                  

 

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

Annie Michaelson.

 

Lancashire and Cheshire Union of Institutes:  statistics given of successes including that of the following:  Nora Harrop.

 

Leaving Presents:  Mabel Byrom, Elsie Byrant [sic], Winifred Turner, Ethel Bailey.

 

Book Presents in Middle Forms:  Louie [sic] Badger, Annie Boullen, May Browning, May Fuller, Enid Grundy, Hilda Hancock, Evelyn Hunt, Doris Jones, Edith Latimer, Annie Pearce, Gwendoline Philipp, Gladys Protheroe, Nora Simon, Clarinda Stott, Ruth Stott, Doris Welch, Constance Grant, Annie Michaelson, Dorothy Bramwell, Amy Glover, Dorothy Lunt, Jessie Stewart, Elsie Wolstenholme, Ada Almond, Helena Irwin, Ida Matthews, Nellie Holden, Nellie Gronno, Jessie Davis, Madge Clague, Eleanor Stevens, Ethel Thompson, Lucy Wormell, Ivy Lee, Rachel Teggin, Annie Ellis, Ethel Holden, Primrose McNicol, Merle Jones, Audrey Lodge, Eva Cooper, Dorothy Goodwin, Mary Johnson, Winifred Johnson, Dorothy Sutcliffe, Bertha Booth, Marjorie Henderson, Judith Jacobs, Barbra [sic] Mumford, Jeanie Stewart, Jane Waters, Elsie Jalland, Louisa Farnworth, Helen Irving.

 

Mrs Buller's Sewing Prizes:  Hildred [sic] Foden, Olive Howard.

 

Dixon Gymnasium Cup:  Annie Hallam

 

Parry Junior Gymnastic Cup:  Dorothy Hale

 

Sara Burstall Horticultural Form Challenge Cup:  the Technical Form.

 

Thring Memorial Cup for Games and Medal:  Elsie Simon

 

Pendleton High School

Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

University of Manchester:  Katherine Jollie, Winifred Stocks, Nellie Hilton, Amy Green, Amy Greenhalgh.

 

British College of Music:  Beatrice Noyes.

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

Cambridge Higher Local Examination:  Gladys Stone.

 

Froebel Examination:  Dorothea Gaskill, Alice Stott.

 

Matriculation, Universities of Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool and Leeds:  Winifred Gerrard, Gladys Atkinson, Barbara Gerrard, Katherine Evans, Miriam Howles, Mabel Kingsland, Hilda Weaver         .        

 

Examination as Pupil Teachers:  Dorothy Dowler.

 

Salford Bursary:  Olivia Stewart.

 

Royal Drawing Society:  statistics given of successes including that of the following: Hilda Weaver

 

British College of Music:  Margaret Riley, Constance Postlethwaite.

 

Leaving Presents:  Miriam Howles, Hilda Weaver.

 

Book Presents in Middle Forms:  Helen Buckle, Margaret Pilkington, Norah Thorp, Eveline Weedall, Marie Agate, Marion Burgess, Elsie Crankshaw, Dorothy Pilkington, Christlieb [sic] Burton, Marjorie Dowler, Nellie Evans.             

Gymnasium and Games Cup: Nellie Pearson.

 

Swimming Cup Seniors: Theodora Carter.

 

Worthington Swimming Cup:  Nellie Brown.

 

Exhibitioners

Lucy Baynes, Edith Edmonds, Louise Chaffers, Hilda Pearson, Grace Simon.

 

Lady Whitworth Exhibitioners

Edith Bailey, Kate Duffy, Clare Norcliffe.

 

Music Exhibition

Enid Grundy

 

Scholars

Mary Blackledge, Gladys Cliffe, Elsie Crankshaw, Dorothy Hale, Leonore Kletz, Doris Lea, Annie Mills, Hilda Parish, Theodora Pitt, Eleanor Rhodes, Doris Walker.

 

Old Girls? Association Scholarship

May Browning

 

L Tatham

Statement of Accounts from 1 September 1905 to 31 August 1906

Details of income and expenditure.

 

Regulations for Exhibitions

Details of regulations for the award of financial assistance.

 

Regulations for the Lady Whitworth and Mary Bradford Exhibitions

Details of regulations for the award of the Lady Whitworth and Mary Bradford Exhibitions.

 

Regulations for Scholarships

Details of regulations for the award of financial assistance.

 

Junior Scholarships

Details of regulations for the award of financial assistance.

 

Form of Bequest to the School

Proforma of bequeathing money to the school.

 

Alphabetical Class Lists, July 1906

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, Technical A, Technical B, IV Upper A, IV Upper B, IV A, IV Middle, IV B, III A, III B, III C, II Upper, Intermediate, II Middle, II Lower, I Upper, I Lower.

 

Pendleton School

Form VI, Kindergarten Students [sic], V Upper, Form V A, Form V B, IV, III Upper, III Lower, Form II, Form I, Preparatory and Kindergarten.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

 

 

 

 

             

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
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