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

1910

Frontispiece 

A drawing of the school at Dover St.

 

Governors

Chairman:  Prof T F Tout

Deputy Chairman:  Sir Edward Donner

Prof S Alexander, Mrs H K Birley, Mr E Broadfield, Mrs E T Broadhurst, Mrs J T Costley, Prof Harold B Dixon, Mrs G Eckhard, Miss Gaskell, Miss M Heywood, Councillor Hibbert, Prof S J Hickson, Lady Hopkinson, Councillor Howell, Prof Horace Lamb, the Dean of Manchester, Councillor 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 Florence Pollard assisted by Miss Elizabeth Simpson

Assistant Mistresses:

Miss S Louisa Dendy, Miss Ethel Ewart, Miss Mary Lilley, Miss Beatrice Leach, Miss Dina Portway, Miss Annie Clark, Miss Gladys Marten, Miss Elizabeth Harrison, Miss Gladwys Evan, 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 Edith Willis, Miss Ethel Willis, Miss Mary Anderton, Miss Jeanie Thompson, Miss Mary Walmsley, Miss Theodora Mellor, Miss Mary McNicol, Miss Gertrude Walsh, Miss Adelaide Robertson, Miss Kate Duffy, Miss Ethel Morgan, Miss Hilda Pearson, Miss Kiero Moakes, Miss Lily Myers, Miss May Friend, Miss K Violet Moore, Miss Frances Harrison, Miss Dorothy Montgomery, Miss Elsie Mack, Miss Helena Bourne, Miss Marie Jones  

Visiting Teachers:

Miss Byron Cooper, Madame 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

Photograph of Pendleton High School

 

Pendleton School Committee

Chairman: Sir W Stephens

Mrs H Birley, Mrs J Costley, Prof H Dixon, Edward Donner, Miss Monica Heywood, Councillor Mather, J Moodie, Mrs L Pilkington, Mrs W J Sprott,

Mr L Tatham

Medical Referee:  Philip Worley

 

Staff

[The academic qualifications of the staff are included]

Head Mistress:  Miss Rosa Patterson

Assistant Mistresses:

Miss A Hood, Miss Jay, Miss G Llewellyn, Miss M E Nottage, Miss Rawlinson, Miss Hilda Ridler, Miss Lilian Roberts, Miss A Seddon, Miss Lucy Stephen, Miss E H Taylor

Visiting Teachers:

Miss E Arthan, Miss Muter [sic] Wilson, 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

Manchester High School

Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

University of Manchester:  Ethel Bailey, Elsie Bryant, Louise Chaffers, Elizabeth Graham, Amy Harvey, Evangeline Hollings, Clare Norcliffe, Jessie Parish, Gladys Dixey, Elizabeth Simon, Robina Craig, Dora Royle, Constance Stenhouse, Philippa Esdaile, Esther Hartley, May Browning, Winifred Turner, Edith Wheeler, Katherine Jollie, Gertrude Geiler.

 

University of Cambridge:  C Morrison, K Hothersall, D Lamb.

 

Domestic Science Scholarship, Manchester Corporation:  Marjorie Dearden, Jenny Sclanders [sic].

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

Joint Matriculation of the Northern Universities:  Margaret Henderson, Judith Jacobs, Nesta Perry, Winifred Riley, Margaret Scott, Maud Willis, Gladys Bateman, Gertrude Cocks, Mary Parkin, Margaret Rosenblum, Honor Scholfield, Lois Watson, Nancy Powicke, Madge Race.

 

Open Scholarships:  Dorothy Hoffert, Dorothy Dymond, Fortunee de Picciotto, Audrey Lodge, Marie de Picciotto.

 

Oxford Senior Local Examination:  Dorothy Abbott, Margaret Cundall, Marie de Picciotto, Elsie Findlay, Lily Burton.

 

Draper's Company Scholarship:  Dorothy Dymond.

 

Leaving Presents:  Marjorie Henderson, Gladys Mason, Barbra [sic] Mumford, Mary Parkin, Nesta Perry, Marie de Picciotto, Honor Scholdfield, Ethel Thompson, Lucy Wormell.

 

Book Presents:  Ida Goodman, Frances Grant, Nathalie Rosenblum, Florence Simmonds, Klarli Brunnschweiler, Margaret Hogg, Constance Lightbrown, Leonora Moodie, Doris Walker, Gladys Bauer, Winifred Casson, Mabel Harrison, Evelyn Kemp, Dorothy Kitchener, Doris Mudie, Olga Schneider, Dorothy Coleman, Dora Halliwell, Margaret Shanks, Mabel Middleton, Mary Rowney, Edith Sugden, Phyllis Brown, Marjorie Duthie, Norah Evans, Valentine Hamad, Dorothy Holmes, Dione Humphries, Henrietta Klein, Norah Whittle, Grace Barlow, Elsie Braidwood, Edith Ellis, Eva Hoyle, Elsie Lawton, Lisette Oppenheimer, Doris Stanley, Constance Williamson, Helen Birtwell, Marjorie Brown, Sallie Cohen, Madeline Lees, Kathleen Pennington, Jeanne de Picciotto, Annie Sommerhalder, Doris Tompkin, Lilian Tunnicliffe, Hilda Whittenbury, Mary Eccles, Phyllis Lowe, Beatrice Plant, Veronica Richman, Joan Wilcock, Annie Ashley, Edith Berry, Dorothy Chester, Clara Hornby, Mary Malan, Florence Partridge, Elsie Simmonds, Felicia Chapman, Georgina Duthie, Elsie MacGill, Jessie Thorburn, Nora Walker, Margaret Whiteley, Mary Affleck, Kathleen Grason.        

 

Sewing Prizes:  Florence Wood, Felicia Chapman.

 

Tonic Sol - Fa College Certificates:  Elsie Brymer, Dorothy Davies, Florence Simmonds.

 

Incorporated Society of Shorthand Teachers:  Marjorie Ware, Jessie Aspinall, Gladys Bauer, Winifred Casson, Gladys Derbyshire, Evelyn Kemp, Doris Ware.

 

Lancashire and Cheshire Union of Institutes:  Statistics given of successes including those of the following:  Beatrice Clay, Margaret Riley.

 

Cookery Certificate:  statistics given of successes including that of the following: Ernestina Aronsberg.

 

Dixon Gymnastic Cup:  Nancy Powicke.

 

Parry Junior Gymnasium Cup:  Felicia Chapman.

 

Junior Swimming Cup:  II Upper.

 

Fletcher Cricket Cup:  Sarah Lowe.

 

Form Basket Ball Cup:  IV Upper A.

 

Thring Memorial Cup and Medal for Games: Nesta Perry.

 

Pendleton High School

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

University of Manchester:  Katherine Jollie, Barbara Garrard, Dorothy Greaves, Louisa Huxtable, Miriam Howles.

 

National Froebel Union Examinations:  Dorothea Carter, Ellen Healey, Eleanor Pearson, Dorothy Ainsworth, Gladys Whittaker.    

 

Cambridge Higher Local Examination:  Olivia Stewart, Evelyn Taylor, Rose Kirkland, Nesta Berry, Marjorie O?Neill.

 

University of Manchester ? Matriculation:  Helen Buckle, Elsie Crankshaw, Agnes Quine.

 

Oxford Local Examination:  Agnes Quine, Margaret Quine

 

Leaving Presents:  Dorothy Jones, Helen Buckle, Olivia Stewart, Agnes Quine

 

Book Presents:  Winifred Glass, Eva Taylor, Dora Higginbottom, Florence Hulme, Dorothea Linsley, Marjorie Littlejohn, Hilda Sherlock, Isabel Ackerley, Adela Currie, Harriet Hulme, Marion Mitchell, Dora Richards, Ethel Wolfenden, Connie Wood, Isabel Carson, Florence Harrop, Violet Jeans, Hilda Ramsbottom, Desiree Rees, Dorothy Garrard, Silvanus Milner, Margaret Wroe.

 

Royal Drawing Society:  Gladys Gerrard, Mary Jordan, Dorothy Kay, Margaret Quine, Florence Hulme, Eileen Moore, Olive Nichols, Blanche Wilson, Margery Kay, Dora Richards.       

 

Lee Wood Gymnastic and Games Cup:  Vera Manley.

 

Swimming Cups:  Eileen Moore, Isabel Carson.

 

Smylie Tennis Cup:  Dorothy Kay.

 

Kletz Form Hockey Cup:  V Upper.

 

Wilkinson Junior Hockey Cup:  IV Lower.

 

Gymnasium Shield:  V Upper and IV Upper.

 

Exhibitioners

Fortunee de Picciotto, Primrose McNicol, J S Davies, F A Lodge, Irene Hunt.

 

Mary Bradford Exhibitioner

Dorothea Hoffert

 

Lady Whitworth Exhibitioner

Dorothy Dymond.

 

Scholars

Dorothy Bunn, Georgina Duthie, May Duthie, Mollie Flynn, Dorothy Fox, Margaret Hogg, Edith Newell, Hilda Pratt, Desiree Edwards Rees, Elsie Tyldesley.

 

Old Girls' Association Scholarship

Dorothy Holmes       

 

Entrance Scholarships at Manchester School

Alice Bayley, Hilda Bowker, Bessie Cleary, Winifred Dakin, Annie Evans, Kate Grime, Esther Levin, Constance Moseley, Annie Petterson, Katherine Pledger, Alice Porter, Helen Sedgley, Margaret Single, Dorothy Smith, Edith Smith, Edith Walker, Jessie Westerman, Ursula Whitehead, Minnie Yablonsky.

 

Entrance Scholarships at Pendleton School

Helen Chapman, Doris Grundy, Nellie Hartley, Winifred Hodgkinson, Frances Williams, Bertha Wilson.

 

L Tatham

Statement of Accounts from 1 September 1909 to 31 August 1910

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 1910

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

Manchester School

VI Seniors, VI Transitus, V Upper, VI and V Remove [sic], Secretarial VI, Secretarial, V Upper, Secretarial V, Housewifery, V A, IV Upper A, IV Upper Alpha, IV Upper Remove, IV Upper B, IV A, IV Remove, IV Middle, IV B, III Upper A, III Upper B, III Middle A, III Middle B, II Upper, II Middle, Probationary, II Lower, I Upper, I Middle and Lower [sic]

 

Pendleton School

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                         

 

           

 

 

             

 

 

   
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