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

1908

Frontispiece 

A drawing of the school at Dover St.

 

Governors

Chairman:  Prof T F Tout

Deputy Chairman:  Edward Donner

Prof S Alexander, Mrs H K Birley, Mr E Broadfield, Mrs E T Broadhurst, Mrs J T Costley, Prof Harold B Dixon, Miss Gaskell, Miss M Heywood, Councillor Hibbert, Prof S J Hickson, Mrs A Hopkinson, Councillor Howell, Prof Horace Lamb, the Dean of Manchester, Lady Mather, Councillor Edwin Mather, J Moodie, Mrs L Pilkington, Lady Schwann, Mrs W J Sprott, A E Steinthal,

Sir William Stephens, L Tatham, 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 and the subjects they taught are included]

Head Mistress: Miss S A Burstall

Medical Referee: John Scott

Medical Inspector:  Miss C Chisholm

School Secretary:  Miss Pollard assisted by Miss Simpson

Assistant Mistresses:

Miss S Louisa Dendy, Miss Anne Shillington, Miss Mary Lilley, Miss Beatrice Leach, Miss Winifred Mercier, Miss Annie Clark, Miss Edith Brodmeier, Miss S E Maltby, Miss Annie Adamson, Miss Annie Nuttall, Miss Florence Pollard, Miss Margaret Paull, Mme Celine Touhikian, Miss Edith Burras, Miss Beatrice Ludlam, Miss Amy Freeman, Miss Edith Willis, Miss Ethel Willis, Mr Arthur Hoyle, Miss Jeanie Thompson, Miss Theodora Mellor, Miss Caroline Coignou, Miss Mary McNicol, Miss Ida Smedley, Miss Adelaide Robertson, Miss Kiero Moakes, Miss Lily Myers, Miss Dorothy Chapman, Miss K Violet Moore, Miss Frances Harrison, Miss Dorothy Montgomery, Miss Gladys Marten, Miss Margaret Paull, Miss Dorothy Frimston, Miss Alice Stott, Miss Helena Bourne, Miss Marie Jones, Miss Byron Cooper, Mme Alice Lamb, Miss Edith Robinson, Mr Isidor Cohn, Miss Webster, Miss E Arthan.

 

General Information

The school is for girls aged 5 - 19 and boys aged 5 - 9 who have sisters in the school.

Information given about the following:

admissions, fees, school hours, curriculum, physical training, 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

Photograph of Pendleton High School

 

Pendleton School Committee

Sir W Stephens:  Chairman

Mrs H Birley, Mrs J Costley, Prof H Dixon, Edward Donner, Miss Monica Heywood, Councillor Mather, Mrs L Pilkington, Mrs W J Sprott, Mr L Tatham, Prof T Tout

 

Staff

[The academic qualifications of the staff are included]

Head Mistress:  Miss Rosa Patterson

Medical Referee:  Philip Worley

Assistant Mistresses:

Miss E M Adolph, Miss M L Burne, Miss A Hood, Miss Jay, Miss G Llewellyn, Miss Pears, Miss Seddon, Miss Rawlinson, Miss E H Taylor

Visiting Teachers:

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

 

General Information

The school is for girls aged 5 - 19 and boys aged 5 - 9.

Information given about the following:

admissions, fees, school hours, curriculum, physical training, religious instruction, school reports to parents, school dinners, examinations, absence, holidays, the withdrawal of pupils, new buildings, teacher training.

 

Honours List, 1907 - 1908

Manchester High School

Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

University of Manchester:  Frances Huxley, Dora Bauerkeller, Sarah Edwards, Katharine Jollie, Ada Neild, Frances Steele, Jane McClymont, Minnie Bell, Muriel Bedson, Amy Green, Eleanor Harvey, Elizabeth Earnshaw, Edith Edwards, Ethel Benn, Minnie Bell, Ethel Bailey, Jessie Parish, Mary McNicol.

 

University of Cambridge:  Muriel Huxley, Jane Mutch, Eleanor Harvey.

 

University of Oxford:  Edith Beard, Eva Dodge.

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

Open Scholarships:  Eleanor Rhodes, Mabel Street, Dorothy Goodwin.

 

University of Manchester ? Matriculation:  Hilda Hancock, Louie [sic] Badger, Annie Boullen, May Browning, Elsie Cartwright, Katharine Clay, Lucy Graham, Edith Latimer, Audrey Lodge, Doris Pearson, Gladys Protheroe, Ella Wilkinson.

 

Oxford Senior Local Examination:  Gladys Mason.

 

Cheshire County Council Senior Secondary Scholarships:  Margaret Bowman, Mildred Foden

 

Royal Drawing Society:  Barbra [sic] Mumford.

 

Sewing Prizes [Mrs Buller]: Agnes Bowman, Gladys Holden.

 

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

 

Incorporated Society of Shorthand Teachers:  statistics given of successes including those of the following: Ivy Lee, Florence Procter, Emily Yooll [sic], Mary Hughes, Katie Kibble, Elsie Norris, Dorothy Roebuck, Marjorie Ware.

 

Lancashire and Cheshire Union of Institutes:  statistics given of successes including those of the following:  Gladys Neale, Elsie Norris.

 

Leaving Presents: Annie Boullen, Annie Pearce, Margaret Brierley, May Browning, Phyllis Spafford.

 

Book Presents:  Jessie Davis, Fortunee de Picciotto, Phyllis Bradbury, Ethel Holden, Mary Hughes, Dorothy Roebuck, Marjorie Ware, Margaret Bowman, Annie Ellis, Dorothy Mainwaring, Primrose McNicol, Ada Stevens, Gladys Bateman, Constance Birtwistle, Dorothy Goodwin, Mabel Harrison, Olga Payne, Marie de Picciotto, Honor Scholfield, May Pennington, Constance Reeve, Gladys Wallace, Mary Walton, Bertha Booth, Rachel Boullen, Marjorie Henderson, Judith Jacobs, Barbra [sic] Mumford, Mary Parkin, Florence Simmonds, Olive Wright, Elsie Jalland, Alice Woods, Mary Blackledge, Florence Clarke, Dorothy Hale, Elsie Hancock, Doris Lea, Hilda Parish, Anna Sutherland, Doris Walker, Ethel Slater, Beatrice Irwin, Ethel Duthie, Nora Evans, Dorothy Holmes, Leonora Moodie, Katie Nettleton, Marion Williamson          

 

Dixon Gymnastic Cup:  Doris Welch

 

Parry Junior Gymnastic Cup:  Ailsa Cowper

 

Horticultural Cup for the Best Plot in the School Garden:  Form IV A

 

Thring Memorial Cup for Games and Medal:  Phyllis Spafford

 

Pendleton High School

Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

University of Manchester:  Katherine Jollie, Nellie Hilton, Amy Green, Amy Greenhalgh, Katherine Evans, Barbara Garrard, Miriam Howles.                

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

University of Oxford:  Mabel Kingsland.

 

Lancashire County Council ? Exhibition:  Gladys Stone.

 

Froebel Examination - Higher Certificate:  Dorothea Gaskell, Alice Stott, Gertrude Arrowsmith, Gladys Atkinson, Beatrice Wilkie, Dorothea Carter, Winifred Cornish, Eleanor Pearson.     

 

University of Manchester ? Matriculation:  Leonore Kletz, Dorothy Jones, Margaret Race, Olivia Stewart.

 

Oxford Senior Local Examination:  Madge Clague, Elsie Redmayne, Gladys Whittaker.

 

Salford Education Bursary:  Marion Burgess, Eva Riches.

 

Royal Drawing Society:  Margaret Riley, Gladys Smylie, Dorothy Butterworth, Olivia Stewart, Gladys Garrard.

 

Leaving Present:  Dorothy Greaves.

 

Book Presents:  Nesta Berry, Marion Burgess, Elsie Crankshaw, Gladys Smylie, May Jordan, Marjory O?Neill, Blanche Wilson, Constance Race, Eva Taylor, Nellie Evans, Mary Jordan, Constance Morris, Elsie Tyldesley, Florence Hulme, Dorothea Linsley, Olive Nichols, May Sackville, Isabel Ackerley, Harriet Hulme, Constance Wood.

 

Lee Wood Gymnastic and Games Cup:  Agnes Quine.

 

Swimming Cup:  Agnes Quine.

 

Junior Swimming Cup:  Dorothea Linsley.

 

Exhibitioners

Mabel Kingsland, Florence Wright, Gladys Cliffe, Eleanor Rhodes, Katherine Clay, Doris Pearson.

 

Scholars

Lucy Beard, Helen Birtwell, Emily Bowman, Irene Challenor, Elsie Crankshaw, Annie Ellis, Evelyn Garnett, Doris Horne, Hilda Hancock, Jeanne de Picciotto, Rose Shaer, Hilda Whittenbury, Nora Whittle.

 

Old Girls? Association Scholarship

Judith Jacobs

 

Entrance Scholarships at Manchester School

Details given of scholarships awarded to the following: Olive Gibbons, Dorothy McInnes, Ellen Walton, Isabella [sic] Baillie, Sallie Cohen, Dorothy Morgan, Millie Morris, Nellie Henderson, Hilda Whittenbury, Olga Schneider, Evelyn Kemp, Sarah Mason, Edith Wright, Muriel Bradock [sic], Doris Hancock, Kate Jacques, Gladys Milne, Veronica Richman, Rachel Rosenthal, Charlotte Sedgley, Ray [sic] Thomas, Lilian Tunnicliffe, Norah Whittle, Mary Eccles, Marion Isgrove, Dora Taylor

 

Entrance Scholarships at Pendleton School

Details given of scholarships awarded to the following in 1908: Maggie Cleworth, Dora Higginbottom, Marjorie Littlejohn, Ethel Wolfenden.

 

L Tatham

Statement of Accounts from 1 September 1907 to 31 August 1908

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

 

Alphabetical Class Lists, July 1908

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

Manchester School

Senior VI, VI Transitus, V Upper, V Upper Remove, V Upper Technical, V A, V Technical, V B, IV Upper, IV Upper A, IV Upper B, IV A, IV Middle, IV B, III A, III B, III C, Upper II, II Middle, II Lower, Probationary, I Upper, I Middle, I Lower.

 

Pendleton School

Kindergarten Students [sic], Senior VI, VI, V Upper, V Lower, IV Upper, IV Lower, III Upper, III Lower, II, I, Transition, Kindergarten.

 

 

 

                                   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

                       

 

 

   
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