North London Collegiate School
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North London Collegiate School is a selective independent day school in the London Borough of Harrow. It admits girls from the ages of 4 to 18 and was founded by pioneering girls' educator Frances Mary Buss in 1850. It is generally recognised as the first ambitious girls' school in the United Kingdom, as it was the first to offer girls the same educational opportunities as boys.
North London Collegiate is among the most academically successful schools in England, having been placed in the top five in the Daily Telegraph exam league tables every year for over a decade. It has been an International Baccalaureate World School since October 2003.[1] The first year that it offered the International Baccalaureate, it had the highest average mark in the country and five of its girls were among only ninety students worldwide to score the maximum possible IB score of 45 marks.
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[edit] Headmistresses and dates of headship
- Frances Mary Buss (1850 – December 1894) [2]
- Sophie Bryant (1895 – 1918) [3]
- Isabella Drummond (1918 – 1940, previously Head of Camden School) [3]
- Eileen Harold (1941 – 1944)[4]
- Dame Kitty Anderson (1945 – 1965) [4]
- Madeline McLauchlan (1965 – December 1985, previously at Henrietta Barnett School)
- Joan Clanchy (1986 – 1997)
- Bernice McCabe (1997 - present, previously at Chelmsford County High School)
[edit] Noted alumnae
- Barbara Amiel (journalist)[5]
- Peggy Angus (wallpaper and tile designer, teacher)
- Margaret Archibald (clarinettist)
- Agnes Arber (botanist)
- Virginia Astley (singer-songwriter)
- Alice Beer (TV presenter)[5]
- Tina Brain (French horn player)
- Alison Britton (ceramicist)
- Eleanor Bron (actress)[5]
- Tanya Byron (psychologist)
- Elizabeth Cadbury (philanthropist)
- Esther Cailingold (Jewish fighter)
- Kate Clanchy (poet)
- Clara Collet(Civil Servant)
- Sharon Cooper (soprano)
- Charlotte Cory (novelist)
- Gillian Cross (children's writer)[5]
- Fenella Fielding (actress)
- Margaret Fingerhut (pianist)
- Lorna Fitzpatrick (Labour Mayoress of Harrow 1996-97)[5]
- Lindsey Fraser (Olympic athlete)
- Helen Gardner (academic/writer)[6]
- Maisie Gay (music hall artist)
- Stella Gibbons (novelist)
- Noreena Hertz (academic)
- Edith How-Martyn (feminist activist)[6]
- Molly Hughes(novelist)
- Lilian Lindsay (first woman dentist - qualified 1897)[6][5]
- Anna Madeley (actress)
- Judy Mallaber (MP)
- Jane March (actress)
- Jan Marsh (expert on pre-Raphaelites)[5]
- Katharine McMahon(author)
- Jessie Millward (music hall artist)
- Gillian Milton (gay rights activist)[5]
- Susie Orbach (psychologist/journalist)
- Kate O'Toole (actress)
- Ruth Padel (poet)
- Myfanwy Piper (art critic, librettist)[6]
- Jessie Pope (poet)
- Anna Popplewell (actress)
- Esther Rantzen (presenter)[5]
- Lizzie Roper (comedian)
- Ethel Sargant (botanist)
- Dame Evelyn Sharp(Civil servant)
- Stevie Smith (poet)[6]
- Marie Stopes (medical pioneer - birth control)[6]
- Sarah Sultoon (CNN correspondent)
- Amanda Swift (children's author)
- Judith Tucker (artist)
- Natasha Walter (writer)[5]
- Susan Watkins (editor, New Left Review)
- Judith Weir (composer)
- Rachel Weisz (actress)
- Anna Wintour (fashion journalist; editor of Vogue.)[5]
[edit] 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) [7]
- "And Their Works Do Follow Them" by Watson, Nigel London, James & James, 2000 [ISBN 0907383300]
[edit] References
- ^ North London Collegiate School. IB World Schools. IBO. Retrieved on 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.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k isbi entry for North London Collegiate School
- ^ a b c d e f North London Collegiate School - Famous ONLs
- ^ Detail obtained from a copy of The North London Collegiate School 1850-1950
