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North London Collegiate School is an independent day school for girls founded in 1850 in Camden Town, and now in the London Borough of Harrow.
The Good Schools Guide called the school an "Academically stunning outer London school in a glorious setting which, in 2003, demonstrated its refusal to rest on its laurels by introducing the IB. Ideal for girls confident of their academic ability with an appetite for all the other opportunities too."[1]
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History
The North London Collegiate School now admits girls from the ages of 4 to 18 and was founded by pioneering girls' educator Frances Mary Buss in 1850. Frances Mary Buss is in the list of top ten greatest women of all time, according to The Times. It is generally recognised as the first independent girls' school in the United Kingdom, as it was the first to offer girls the same educational opportunities as boys, although the Red Maids' School was established in 1634. It is situated at the ends of Canons Drive in Edgware and has a rich history behind the location.
George Bernard Shaw's mother was a director of music at the school, followed in 1908 by J.B. Manson's wife, Lilian, whose ambitious revival of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in 1910 gained coverage in The Times.[2]
North London Collegiate is arguably the most academically successful school in England, having been placed in the top five in the Daily Telegraph exam league tables every year for over a decade.[clarification needed] It has been an International Baccalaureate World School since October 2003.[3] The first year that it offered the International Baccalaureate, it had the highest average mark in the country for five consecutive years and five of its girls were among only ninety students worldwide to score the maximum possible IB score of 45 marks.[citation needed] North London Collegiate School is now opening two schools in Korea, Jeju, as part of its franchising scheme. Alumnae of North London are called Old North Londoners, or ONL's. The school has a friendly and banterous rivalry with St.Paul's, but usually is on top on the tables.
Headmistresses and dates of headship
- Frances Mary Buss (1850 – December 1894) [4]
- Sophie Bryant (1895 – 1918) [5]
- Isabella Drummond (1918 – 1940, previously Head of Camden School) [5]
- Eileen Harold (1941 – 1944)[6]
- Kitty Anderson DBE (1945 – 1965) [7][6]
- Madeline McLauchlan (1965 – December 1985, previously at Henrietta Barnett School)
- Joan Clanchy (1986 – 1997)
- Bernice McCabe (1997 - present, previously at Chelmsford County High School)
Noted alumnae
See also Category: Old North Londoners.- Edith Aitken (first headmistress of Pretoria High School for Girls)
- Barbara Amiel (journalist)
- Peggy Angus (artist, tile and wallpaper designer)
- Agnes Arber [née Robertson] (1879–1960) (botanist)
- Alice Beer (TV presenter)[8]
- Tina Brain (French horn player)
- Alison Britton (ceramicist)
- Eleanor Bron (actress)[8]
- Amy Maud Bull [née Hicks] (1877–1953) (suffragist)
- Sara Burstall (teacher, headmistress) (headmistress of Manchester High School for Girls)
- Dame Elizabeth Mary Cadbury, [née Taylor](1858–1951)(welfare worker and philanthropist)
- Edith Clegg opera singer
- Clara Collet (civil servant and promoter of women's education and employment)
- Charlotte Cory (novelist)
- Gillian Cross (children's writer)[8]
- Anne Digby (novelist)
- Carmen Joseph Dillon (film art director)
- Jessica Duchen (writer)
- Fenella Fielding (actress)
- Margaret Fingerhut (pianist)
- Lorna Fitzpatrick (Labour Mayoress of Harrow 1996-97)[8]
- Jacky Fleming (cartoonist)
- Lindsey Fraser (Olympic athlete)
- Dame Helen Gardner (academic/writer)[9]
- Maisie Gay (music hall artist)
- Margaret Ghilchik (surgeon)
- Stella Gibbons (1902–1989) (novelist)
- Eleanor Graham (1896–1984) (publisher and children's writer)
- Frances Hamer (scientist)
- Hattie Harris (scientist)
- Alice Maud Head (1886–1981) (journalist and businesswoman)
- Noreena Hertz (b. 1967)(academic)
- Dorothy Hewer (1888–1948) (herb farmer)
- Edith How Martyn (1875–1954) (suffragist and advocate of birth control)
- Mary Vivian "Molly" Hughes (1866–1956) (writer, educator)
- Edith Ingold nee Usherwood(chemist)
- Margaret Calkin James (1895–1985) (graphic designer and artist)
- Dilys Lloyd Glynne Jones [née Dilys Lloyd Davies] (1857–1932) (educationist)
- Lilian Lindsay[9][8] [née Murray] (1871–1960) (first woman dentist - qualified 1897)
- Sheila Ramsay Lochhead [née MacDonald] (1910–1994) (prison visitor)
- Nan (Margaret Annie) Macdonald (radio producer and presenter)
- Anna Madeley (actress)
- Judy Mallaber (MP)
- Jane March (actress)
- Jan Marsh (expert on pre-Raphaelites)[8]
- Katharine McMahon (author)
- Pamela Melnikoff (writer)
- Valerie Mendes (author)
- Margaret Theodora Meyer (1862–1924) (mathematician)
- Jessie Millward (music hall artist)
- Gillian Milton (gay rights activist)[8]
- Susie Orbach (psychologist/journalist)
- Kate O'Toole (actress)
- Ruth Padel (poet)
- Pat Phillips (diplomat, ambassador)
- Myfanwy Piper [née Evans](1911–1997) (librettist)
- Jessie Pope (1868–1941)(poet)
- Anna Popplewell (actress)
- Catherine Alice Raisin (1855–1945) (geologist and educationist)
- Louie Ramsay (actress)
- Esther Rantzen (television personality)
- Dame (Mildred) Betty Ridley [née Mosley] (1909–2005) (church administrator)
- Hannah Robertson (1862–1950) (educationist and promoter of higher education for women)
- Ethel Sargant (1863–1918) (botanist)
- Roz Shafran (psychologist)
- Evelyn Adelaide Sharp Baroness Sharp (1903–1985) (civil servant)
- Stevie Smith (1902–1971) (poet)
- Marie Stopes (1880–1958)(palaeobotanist and birth control advocate)[9]
- Sarah Sultoon (CNN correspondent)
- Amanda Swift (children's author)
- (Janet) Netta Syrett (1865–1943) (novelist and playwright)
- Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor (1879–1966) (geographer and historian of science)
- Judith Tucker (artist)
- Natasha Walter (writer)[8]
- Enid Charis Warren (1903–1980) (medical social worker)
- Marjory Warren (1897–1960) (geriatrician/doctor)
- Susan Watkins (editor, New Left Review)
- Frances Emily Webb-Peploe [née Hughes] (1855–1927) (principal of a women's university hall of residence)
- Judith Weir (composer)
- Rachel Weisz (actress)
- Barbara Ker Wilson (novelist)
- Anna Wintour (fashion journalist; editor of Vogue.)[8]
- Mary Hay Wood (1868–1934) (educationist and college head)
- Zarif (singer/songwriter)
Bibliography
- The North London Collegiate School 1850-1950: A Hundred Years of Girls' Education Includes 'Essays in honour of the Frances Mary Buss Foundation' together with an appendix section that includes Royal Patrons, The School Prospectus, Prize Day List, Links to Girton College and the University of London, and regulations concerning Prefects and Monitors. Published by OUP (Oxford University Press) in 1950 with 231 pages, including the index. (No author or Editor) [10]
- "And Their Works Do Follow Them" by Watson, Nigel London, James & James, 2000 [ISBN 0907383300]
Notes and references
- ^ http://goodschoolsguide.co.uk/school/north-london-collegiate-school.html
- ^ Buckman, David (1973), James Bolivar Manson, p. 9, Maltzahn Gallery Ltd, London.
- ^ "North London Collegiate School". IB World Schools. IBO. http://www.ibo.org/school/001482/. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
- ^ The Book entitled The North London Collegiate School 1850 - 1950 contains a black-and-white frontispiece portrait of Frances M Buss, with a printed signature - See bibliography for further detail of book
- ^ a b The book entitled The North London Collegiate School 1850 - 1950 contains references in the index to this person and a black-and-white photographic plate with printed signature- See Bibliography for further detail of book
- ^ a b The book entitled The North London Collegiate School 1850 - 1950 contains references in the index to this person.
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - subscription based
- ^ a b c d e f g h i isbi entry for North London Collegiate School
- ^ a b c North London Collegiate School - Famous ONLs
- ^ Detail obtained from a copy of The North London Collegiate School 1850-1950
External links
Categories:- Independent girls' schools in London
- Education in Barnet
- Education in Harrow
- Educational institutions established in 1850
- International Baccalaureate schools in the United Kingdom
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