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

1909

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, 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

Deputy Treasurer: J Moodie

 

Auditors:  Messrs Halliday, Pearson and Co

Clerks to the Governors:  Edwin Marshall, Hubert Teague

Medical Referee:  John Scott

Medical Inspector: Miss C Chisholm

 

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

School Secretary:  Miss Pollard assisted by Miss Simpson

Assistant Mistresses:

Miss S Louisa Dendy, Miss Anne Shillington, Miss Mary Lilley, Miss Beatrice Leach, Miss Dina Portway, Miss Annie Clark, Miss Gladys Marten, Miss Elizabeth Harrison, Miss Annie Adamson, Miss Annie Nuttall, Miss Florence Pollard, Miss Mary Clayton, Miss Jessie Sprunt, Mme Celine Touhikian, Miss Edith Burras, Miss Beatrice Ludlam, Miss Amy Freeman, Miss Muriel Bedson, Miss Edith Willis, Miss Ethel Willis, Miss Mary Anderton, Miss Jeanie Thompson, Miss Helen Miller, Miss Theodora Mellor, Miss Caroline Coignou, Miss Mary McNicol, Miss Gertrude Walsh, Miss Adelaide Robertson, Miss Kate Duffy, Miss Hilda Pearson, Miss Kiero Moakes, Miss Lily Myers, Miss May Friend, Miss K Violet Moore, Miss Frances Harrison, Miss Dorothy Montgomery, Miss Dorothy Frimston, Miss Beatrice Wilkie, Miss Gwladys [sic] Evans, Miss Helena Bourne, Miss Marie Jones, Miss Byron Cooper, Mme Alice Lamb, Miss Edith Robinson, Miss Ellen Wilkinson, Mr Isidor Cohn, Miss Webster, Miss E Arthan

 

General Information

The school is for girls aged 8 - 19.

There is a boarding house under the direction of Miss Burras.

Information given about the school hours, fees, curriculum, religious instruction, morning prayers, homework, examinations, inspections, physical training, absence, reports to parents, the library, school dinners, uniform, holidays, the withdrawal of pupils, visits to Manchester Museum, the school garden, scholarships and exhibitions.  

 

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 B Greenhalgh, Miss V Hardie, Miss A Hood, Miss Jay, Miss G Llewellyn, Miss G M 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 school hours, fees, curriculum, religious instruction, morning prayers, homework, examinations, inspections, absence, reports to parents, school dinners, holidays, the withdrawal of pupils.

 

Honours List, 1908 - 1909

Manchester High School

Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

University of Manchester:  Muriel Bedson, Minnie Bell, Amy Green, Jane McClymont, Eleanor Harvey, Ethel Bailey, Elsie Bryant, Helen Chaffers, Elizabeth Graham, Clare Norcliffe, Jessie Parish, Kate Duffy, Hilda Pearson, Ruth Rogers, Gertrude Leach, Blanche Strachan, Elsie Redfearn.        

 

University of Cambridge:  Ella Harvey, Nellie Stott, Dorothy Lamb.

 

University of Oxford:  Edith Edmonds, Mabel Byrom, Lucy Baynes.

 

Domestic Science Scholarship, Manchester Corporation:  Marjorie Fraser

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

Joint Matriculation of the Northern Universities:  Doris Bailey, Margaret Bowman, Jessie Davis, Annie Ellis, Evelyn Hunt, Fortunee de Picciotto, Mona Procter, Ada Stevens, Ethel Thompson, Josephine Davies, Bessie Derbyshire, Ella Farrow, Annie Kyffin, Primrose McNicol, Gwendolen Philipp, Miriam Marks, Dora Stott, Lucy Wormell, Dorothy Barker, Janie Learmouth, Isabella Moorsom [sic]

 

University of Manchester:  Doris Bailey, Nora Simon.

 

University of Oxford:  Hilda Stansfield.

 

Oxford Senior Local Examination:  Dorothy Stewart, Sylvia Gartside, Olga Payne.

 

University of London:  Muriel Kerr, Dorothy Barker.

 

Manchester Municipal School of Technology:  Louie [sic] Badger.

 

Cheshire County Council:  Margaret Scott.

 

Leaving Presents:  Hilda Hancock, Edith Latimer, Gladys Protheroe, Dorothy Abbott, Bessie Darbyshire, Ella Farrow, Olga Payne, Florence Procter, Marjorie Ware.

 

Book Presents:  Gladys Bateman, Marie de Picciotto, Honor Schofield, Evelyn Kemp, Elsie Norris, Bertha Booth, Ida Goodman, Frances Grant, Betsy Pike, Madge Race, Nathalie Rosenblum, Ruth Taylor, Mary Jones, Elsie Lowe, Marjorie Henderson, Judith Jacobs, Barbra [sic] Mumford, Mary Parkin, Maud Willis, Mary Blackledge, Elsie Hancock, Dora Halliwell, Leonora Moodie, Margaret Langley, Doris Walker, Dorothy Coleman, Winifred Casson, Catherine Henderson, Dorothy McAdam, Doris Mudie, Margaret Shanks, Elsie Smith, Mary White, Elsie Horrocks, Florence Evans, Nora Evans, Dorothy Holmes, Dione Humphries, Sarah Mason, Nora Whittle, Gladys Uhland, Doris Redfern, Edith Ellis, Lisette Oppenheimer, Lucy Beard, Helen Birtwell, Sallie Cohen, Gladys Holden, Marion Horne, Kathleen Pennington, Jeanne de Picciotto, Doris Tompkin, Annie Sommerhalder, Hilda Whittenbury, Gwendoline Bailey, Muriel Bradock, Mary Eccles, Marian Isgrove, Cissie Linz, Lilian Tunnicliffe.

 

Incorporated Society of Shorthand Teachers:  statistics given of successes including those of the following:  Elsie Norris, Marjorie Ware, Ethel Holden, Phyllis Bradbury.                     

 

Lancashire and Cheshire Union of Institutes:  statistics given of successes including that of the following:  Constance Kitchin.

 

Sewing Prizes [Mrs Buller]:  Gladys Uhland, Muriel Yorke ? Jones.

 

Tonic Sol - Fa College:  Madge Race.

 

Dixon Gymnasium Cup: Lilian Blackstock.

 

Parry Junior Gymnasium Cup: Olive Grimson.

 

Horticultural Cup: Form III C.

 

Fletcher Cricket Cup:  Sara Lowe.

 

Thring Memorial Cup and Medal for Games:  Irene Brierley.

 

Pendleton High School

Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

University of Manchester:  Barbara Garrard, Dorothy Greaves.    

 

University of Cambridge:  Gladys Stone.

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

Froebel Examination:  Gertrude Arrowsmith, Gladys Atkinson, Beatrice Wilkie, Dorothea Carter, Winifred Cornish, Madge Clague, Gladys Whittaker.

 

University of Manchester ? Matriculation:  Aldyth Berry, Dorothea Butterworth.

 

Oxford Local Examination:  Gladys Smylie, Dorothy Clarke, Gladys Garrard, Dorothy Kay, Agnes Quine, Margaret Riley, Margaret Watson, Ada Salt, Kathleen Challen.

 

Salford Education Bursary:  Lucy Riches.

 

Royal Drawing Society:  Helen Buckle, Dorothea Carter, Blanche Wilson, Olivia Stewart, Margery Kay, Mary Jordan, Elsie Robinson.

 

Lee Wood Gymnastic and Games Cup:  Margaret Quine.

 

Swimming Cup:  Dorothea Linsley, Eileen Moore.

 

Smylie Tennis Cup:  Dorothy Ainsworth.

 

Gymnasium Shield:  Forms VI and V Upper.

 

Exhibitioners

Winifred Garrard, Doris Bailey, Annie Kyffin, Hilda Stansfield, Leonora Kletz, Dorothy Barker.

 

Mary Bradford Exhibitioners

Louie [sic] Badger.

 

Lady Whitworth Exhibition

Nora Simon

 

Scholars

Gladys Bateman, Marion Burgess, Henrietta Klein, Eileen Rowney, Annie Sommerhalder, Ada Stevens.

 

Old Girls? Association Scholarship

Mary Blackledge, Mary Watson.

 

Entrance Scholarships at Manchester School

Lily Alcock, Amy Beech, Edith Berry, Phyllis Clark, Minnie Egli, Doris Fielden, Maisie Hobbins, Elsie Kott, Madeline Lees, Mary Malan, Mona Marsh, Enid Miniati, Florence Partridge, Beatrice Plant, Elsie Simmonds, Mary Thomas, Dora Tyson, Clara Unter, Clarice Vaughan, Edna Wearing, Alice Whitaker, Margaret Whiteley.

 

Entrance Scholarships at Pendleton School

Adela Currie, Marion Mitchell, Maud Rhead, Dora Richards, Dora Tyson.

 

L Tatham

Statement of Accounts from 1 September 1908 to 31 August 1909

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 1909

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

Manchester School

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

 

Pendleton School

Kindergarten Students [sic], Seniors, VI, V Upper, V Lower, IV Upper, IV Lower, Form III Upper, III Lower, Form II, Form I, Transition, Kindergarten

 

 

 

           

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

 

   
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