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

1911

Frontispiece 

A drawing of the school at Dover St.

 

Governors

Chairman: Prof T F Tout

Prof S Alexander, Mrs H K Birley, Mr E Broadfield, Mrs E T Broadhurst, W Burton, Mrs J T Costley, Miss Mary Dendy, Prof Harold B Dixon, Edward Donner, Mrs G Eckhard, Miss Gaskell, Miss E M Greg, Prof S J Hickson, Lady Hopkinson, Prof Horace Lamb, the Dean of Manchester, Councillor Mather, J Moodie, Mrs B M Rawcliffe, Lady Schwann, Sir T Thornhill Shann, A E Steinthal, Sir William Stephens, L Tatham, Mrs T F Tout, Alderman Turnbull

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

Departmental Mistresses:

Miss S Louisa Dendy, Miss Ethel Ewart, Miss Mary Lilley, Miss Beatrice Leach, Miss Annie Clark, Miss Gladys Marten, Miss Elizabeth Harrison, Miss Gladwys [sic] Evan [sic], Miss Florence Lunn, Miss Margaret Curtis, Miss Annie Adamson, Miss Annie Nuttall, Miss Florence Pollard, Miss Jessie Sprunt, MissGertrude Powicke, Mme Celine Touhikian, Miss Edith Burras, Miss Beatrice Ludlam, Miss Amy Freeman, Miss Edith Willis, Miss Ethel Willis, Miss Jane Mutch, Miss Marjorie Long, Miss Maud Matthews, Miss Jane Preston, Miss Mary McNicol, Miss Gertrude Walsh, Miss Ethel Morgan, Miss Hilda Pearson, Miss Kiero Moakes, Miss Lily Myers, Miss Grace Bradshaw, Miss K Violet Moore, Miss Marjorie Ware, Miss Frances Harrison, Miss Dorothy Jackson, Miss Alice Chisholm, Miss Hilda Sheasby, Miss Carmen Buchanan, Miss Helena Bourne, Miss Marie Jones, Miss Hannah Ritchie

Visiting Teachers:

Miss Byron Cooper, Madame Alice Lamb, Miss Edith Robinson, Miss Ellen Wilkinson, Mr Isidor Cohn, Miss Edith Webster, Miss E Arthan, Miss Hilda Johnstone

 

General Information

The school is for girls aged 8 - 19.

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, medical inspections, 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 William Stephens     

Mrs H Birley, Mrs J Costley, Prof H Dixon, Edward Donner, Alderman Frankenburg, Canon Green, Miss Monica Heywood, Mr Elkanah Hewitt, Councillor Mather, J Moodie, Mrs L Pilkington, Canon Edwards-Rees, Miss Kate Riley, Mrs W J Sprott, Mr L Tatham, Prof Tout

Treasurer:  L Tatham

 

Auditors:  Messrs Halliday, Pearson and Co

Clerk to the Governors:  Hubert Teague

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 D M W Race, Miss A Seddon, Miss Lucy Stephen, Miss E H Taylor

Visiting Teachers:

Miss E Arthan, Miss Muter 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 1910 - 1911

Manchester School

Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:   

 

University of Manchester:  Robina Craig, Gladys Dixey, Dora Royle, Constance Stenhouse, Kate Duffy, Philippa Esdaile, Eleanor Rhodes, Nora Simon, Hilda Livesey, Blanche Strachan, Margaret Curtis, Theodora Pitt, Gladys Cliffe, Winifred Turner, Edith Wheeler.

 

University of Cambridge:  Eleanor Harvey, Eva Wright.

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:  

 

Open Exhibitions and Scholarships:  Ada Stevens, Margaret Bowman, Annie Ellis.

 

Joint Matriculation of the Northern Universities:  Nathalie Rosenblum, Edith Webb, Mary Bradley, Doris Brooks, Mercy Barber, Mary Blackledge, Elsie Blackburn-Brown, Margery Crewe, Dorothy Davies, Elsie Foster, Frances Grant, Dorothy Hale, Margaret Hogg, Lily Letter, Constance Lightbrown, Annie Scott, Florence Simmonds, Doris Walker, Margaret Bowman, Rachel Boullen, Hilda Parish, Margaret Langley        

 

Housecraft Certificate:  Mabel Middleton, Annie Pearson, Mary Rowney, Edith Sugden, Carrie Aldous, Kathleen Brown, Margaret Grimshaw, Beatrice Irwin, Lilian Jackson, Constance Kay, Elsie Lawton, Doris Mottershall, Edith Pilling, Margaret Riley, Eileen Spafford, Mary Taylor, Mabel Tunstall, Beatrice Welch, Constance Williamson.

 

University of London Matriculation:  Gertrude Entwistle.  

 

Oxford Senior Local Examination:  Mary Bradley, Elsie Lowe.

 

Associated Board of the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music:  Jessie Twigg.

 

Senior Secondary Scholarship awarded by the Manchester Education Committee:  Constance Parish, Florence Evans.

 

Society of Arts Commercial German:  Dorothy MacAdam, Doris Mudie, Margaret Rosenblum, Olga Schneider, Doris Ware.          

 

Entrance Examinations for Bursars:  Elsie Brymer, Frida [sic] Collins, Ethel Clough, Elsie Hancock, Helen Henderson, Ethel Higgins, Caroline Mason, Doris Miniati, Alice Nuthall, Ellen Walton, Phyllis Brown, Lillie Alcock, Edith Berry, Mary Eccles, Doris Hancock, Rosina Jepson, Rose Shaer, Lois Yeadon.

 

Leaving Presents:  Lillie Burton, Winifred Riley, Maud Willis.

 

Book Presents:  Elsie Hancock, Nellie Henderson, Ethel Hudleston [sic], Caroline Mason, Ellen Walton, Sybil Bailey, Dorothy Holmes, Dione Humphries, Mary White, May Blakey, Winifred Casson, Valentine Hamad, Cissie Linz, Doris Mudie, Olga Schneider, Winifred Bedson, Marjorie Duthie, Henrietta Klein, Madeleine Levy, Doris Hancock, Rita Vivante, Carrie Aldous, Lilian Jackson, Eileen Spafford, Edith Sugden, Mabel Kay, Nora McNicol, Dorothy Nichols, Constance Parr, Edith Pilling, Doris Welch, Alice Aldous, Evelyn Garnett, Madeleine Lees, Kathleen Pennington, Jeanne de Picciotto, Eileen Rowney, Annie Sommerhalder, Doris Tompkin, Lilian Tunnicliffe, Hilda Whittenbury, Annie Ashley, Gwendoline Bailey, Ruth Bailey, Lily Hamad, Beatrice Plant, Joan Wilcock, Alisa Cowper, Ethel Gamble, Joyce Addyman, Edith Berry, Dorothy Chester, Annie Evans, Clara Hornby, Mary Malan, Margaret Mumford, Edith Newell, Florence Partridge, Hilda Pratt, Elsie Simmonds, Hilda Woodall, Sarah Ellis, Elsie Shaw, Constance Btesh, Esther Levin, Marion Lewtas, Edith Smith, Minnie Yablonsky, Hermina Lange, Felicia Chapman, Louise Cole, Georgina Duthie, Margaret Single, Marjorie Taylor, Norah Walker, Margaret Whiteley, Kate Grime, Joyce Wilcock, Mary Atkinson, Bessie Cleary, Elsie Polak, Marian McGregor, Madeleine Bahin.

 

Mrs Buller's Sewing Prizes:  Caroline Mason, Elsie Polak.

 

Incorporated Society of Shorthand Teachers:  Marjorie Ware, Doris Ware, Dorothy Kitchener, Doris Mudie, Olive Howard, Valentine Hamad, May Hird, Winifred Barlow, Constance Dale, Dorothy MacAdam, Bessie Sedgley, Dorothy Teasdale.

 

Lancashire and Cheshire Union of Institutes:  statistics given of successes including those of the following: Carrie Aldous, Lilian Jackson, Theodora Pearson, Edith Sugden.

 

Dixon Gymnasium Cup:  Molly Fulton.

 

Parry Junior Gymnastic Cup: Una Webb.

 

Fletcher Cricket Cup: Irene Challenor.

 

Form Basket Ball Cup Senior: V A.

 

Form Basket Ball Cup Junior:  III Upper A.

 

Thring Memorial Cup and Medal for Games:  Nesta Perry.

 

Pendleton High School

Former Pupils

Details given of the success of the following:   

 

University of Cambridge: Gladys Stone.

 

University of Manchester:  Barbara Garrard, Dorothy Greaves, Kitty Evans, L Huxtable, D Jones, E Kemp, M Race, A Buckle, D Race

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the success of the following:   

 

Cambridge Higher Local Examination:  Nesta Berry, Marjorie O?Neill, Elsa Openshaw.

 

Joint Matriculation of the Northern Universities:  Dorothy Clayton, Annie Clift, Leah Fletcher, Winifred Glass, Margaret Quine.

 

Oxford Senior Local Examination:  Ida Marshall, Constance Race.

 

Royal Drawing Society:  May Farron, Florence Hulme, Dorothea Linsley, Eileen Moore, May Mottram, Olive Nichols, Dora Robinson, Ingrid Hallawell, Margery Kay, Dora Richards, Dora Robinson, Constance Wood, Vita Quine.

 

Entrance Examination for Bursars under the Manchester Education Committee:  Dora Tyson

 

Founders' Open Scholarship at Roedean School:  Desiree Edwards Rees.

 

Lee Wood Gymnastic Cup:  Constance Morris.

 

Swimming Cups:  Isabel Carson, Emma Linsley.

 

Smylie Tennis Cup:  Nesta Berry.

 

Coomber Form Tennis Cup:  Form V Remove.

 

Kletz Form Hockey Cup:  Form VI.

 

Wilkinson Junior Hockey Cup:  Form III.

 

Gymnasium Shield:  Form IV.

 

Exhibitioners

Margaret Bowman, Nesta Perry, Annie Ellis, Gertrude Entwistle, Ada Stevens.

 

Scholars

Mary Atack, Mary Atkinson, Enid Adams, Rachel Boullen, Susan Brooks, Hilda Cann, Muriel Edwards, Vera Greenhough, Dione Humphries, Evelyn Holmes, Nancy Harker, Dora Higginbottom, Ruth Morris, Constance Martin, Marjorie Pearson.

 

Old Girls' Association Scholarship

Dorothy Holmes       

 

Entrance Scholarships at Manchester School

Barbara Adams, Maggie Anderson, Marian Bent, Edith Bird, Alice Birtwell, Lily Boltiansky, Doris Bridge, Doris Craven, Edith Dalby, Sallie Edmondson, Violet Ellis, Jenny Franks, Leah Goodman, Marion Griffiths, Edith Henson, Gypsey Levin, Winifred  Morgan, Joyce Ramsell, Elsie Tomkins, Dora Tyson, Florence Wells, Nellie Williamson.

 

Entrance Scholarships at Pendleton School

Madeline [sic] Charnley, Irene Davies, Hildred Fletcher, Doris Gee, Dorothy Hodson.

 

L Tatham

Statement of Accounts from 1 September 1910 to 31 August 1911

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 1911

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

Manchester School

Seniors, Matriculation., VI Remove, V Upper Remove, V Remove, V Upper, Secretarial VI, Secretarial V Upper, Secretarial V, Housewifery Advanced, Housewifery Beginners, V A, V B, IV Upper A, IV Upper Alpha, IV Upper Remove, IV Upper B, IV A, IV Remove, IV Middle, IV B, III Upper A, III Middle A, III Upper B, II Upper, II Middle A, II Middle B, II Lower, I Upper, I Lower

 

Pendleton School

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

 

 

 

 

 

                       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

 

 

 

   
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