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Jersey College For Girls
Jersey College for Girls (JCG, Jèrriais: ''Lé collège jèrriais pour les fil'yes'') is a government-run, fee-paying, academically selectiveEducation Journey in Jersey ''States of Jersey (gov.je)''. Retrieved 12 December 2022. secondary school for in Saint Saviour, Jersey. It was founded in 1880 in Saint Helier as Jersey Ladies' College. In 1887, the college moved to a purpose-built site on La Poquelaye and in 1999, it moved again to its present site, on Mont Millais, across from [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria College, Jersey
Victoria College is a Government of Jersey, Government-run, Independent school, fee-paying, academically selective day schoolEducation Journey in Jersey ''States of Jersey (gov.je)''. Retrieved 12 December 2022. for Single-sex education, boys in St Helier, Jersey. Founded in 1852, the school is named after Queen Victoria. It is owned and administered by the States of Jersey and is located on Mont Millais adjacent to Jersey College for Girls, the Government fee-paying secondary school for girls. As a fee-charging school and a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), Victoria College is often considered an Independent school (United Kingdom), independent school or a Public school (United Kingdom), public school in the British sense of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jersey College For Girls College House
Jersey ( , ; nrf, Jèrri, label=Jèrriais ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (french: Bailliage de Jersey, links=no; Jèrriais: ), is an island country and self-governing Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west France. It is the largest of the Channel Islands and is from the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy. The Bailiwick consists of the main island of Jersey and some surrounding uninhabited islands and rocks including Les Dirouilles, Les Écréhous, Les Minquiers, and Les Pierres de Lecq. Jersey was part of the Duchy of Normandy, whose dukes became kings of England from 1066. After Normandy was lost by the kings of England in the 13th century, and the ducal title surrendered to France, Jersey remained loyal to the English Crown, though it never became part of the Kingdom of England. Jersey is a self-governing parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy, with its own financial, legal and judicial systems, and the power of self-determination. The islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jude Terry
Rear Admiral Judith Helen "Jude" Terry is a senior Royal Navy officer. In May 2021, it was announced that she would be promoted to rear admiral in 2022, thereby becoming the first woman to hold flag rank in the Royal Navy. She became Naval Secretary and Director of People and Training. Personal life Terry was born in Jersey, and was educated at Jersey College for Girls, a fee-paying school on the island. She studied anatomical sciences at the University of Dundee, graduating with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in 1997. Naval career Terry was commissioned into the Royal Navy on 17 September 1997. She was promoted to commander on 30 June 2014. She has served on the survey vessel , and as head of logistics on , the United Kingdom's helicopter carrier. She served for three years at Permanent Joint Headquarters, for which she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours. She was promoted to commodore on 8 March 2021, and to rear a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HM Prison Askham Grange
HM Prison Askham Grange is a women's open category prison, located in Askham Richard village in North Yorkshire, England. The prison is run by His Majesty's Prison Service. History H.M. Prison Askham Grange was opened in January 1947 as a women's open prison and was the first such prison in the country. The first Governor of H.M.P. Askham Grange was Anglo-Irish penal reformer Mary Size, who remained in post from January 1947 until her retirement from the prison service in September 1952. Mrs. Joanna Kelley was Governor from October 1952 until 1959, when she moved on to become Governor of Holloway and later Assistant Director of Prisons (Women). She was replaced by Marguerite Stocker who remained until her retirement in 1966. In 1973 Susan McCormick was appointed Governor at Askham Grange, becoming (at 28) "the youngest ever governor or warden of a women's prison in Britain." McCormick went on to introduce programmes of rehabilitation in the prison for soon-to-be released pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marguerite Stocker
Marguerite Ellen-Gaudin Stocker MBE (2 March 1901 – July 1992) was governor of HM Prison Askham Grange in Yorkshire from 1959 until her retirement in 1967. Early life Marguerite Stocker was born in Jersey to Walter Arthur and Louisa Jane Stocker (née Gaudin) on 2 March 1901. She attended Jersey Ladies' College, now Jersey College for Girls. She left school in the summer of 1918. Marguerite's sister was Chief Commander Kathleen Gaudin Stocker in the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) and was recognised for her service by the award of Military Division of the Order of the British Empire, 1945. Career In September 1918 Stocker became an apprentice engineer at Galloway Engineering Co. in Tongland near Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The Tongland factory was set up by Thomas Pullinger for manufacture of aero engines during World War One. The factory advertised professional training for female engineers, beyond usual war work, and was described as "a fine unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nerina Pallot
Nerina Natasha Georgina Pallot (born 26 April 1974) is an English singer, songwriter and producer, who has released six albums and over a dozen EPs. She was nominated for British Female Solo Artist at the 2007 BRIT Awards and nominated for an Ivor Novello Award for "Sophia (Nerina Pallot song), Sophia" in the category of 'Best Song (musically and lyrically)' in the same year. Besides her own material, Pallot has written songs for Kylie Minogue and Diana Vickers. She mostly tours around the UK and is married to record producer Andy Chatterley. Early life Pallot was born in London and brought up in Jersey by a French people, half-French father and a mother from Allahabad, Prayag, India, together with her sister. Pallot played piano as a child and wrote her first song aged 13. She has identified seeing singer and pianist Kate Bush perform her hit song "This Woman's Work" on television series ''Wogan'' as a catalyst for her to pursue a music career. She attended Jersey College for G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Hill (journalist)
Jenny Hill is a British news reporter and television journalist who works for the BBC. As of September 2014, she is the BBC's Berlin correspondent, having previously worked as a reporter for ''BBC Breakfast'' and as a crime correspondent and regional reporter for the North of England region. She has also previously worked as a relief presenter on ''BBC Look North''. Early life Hill was born and grew up on the island of Jersey, where she attended Jersey College for Girls. She first became interested in journalism while working for BBC Radio Jersey. Journalism career Following postgraduate studies at Cardiff University's School of Journalism, Hill joined Central Television in Birmingham as a reporter. When the BBC established its television news service for the Channel Islands she returned home to present the evening bulletins and to work as a reporter, presenter and producer in Jersey and Guernsey. This was followed by a move to Grimsby to work for ''BBC Look North'' for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Chambers
Helen Chambers CBE (18 July 1879 – 21 July 1935) was a British pathologist and cancer expert whose findings on radium were essential in the fight against cervical cancer. Early life Chambers was born in Bombay, India, to Frederick Chambers. Her father was a member of the Indian Civil Service before returning the family back to Britain. Education and early research Chambers studied at the Jersey Ladies' College, and Park Street Girls' School in Cambridge before going up to Newnham College, Cambridge, where she studied chemistry and physics. Chambers entered the London School of Medicine for Women in 1898 to train as a doctor. She continued her studies at London University, graduating Bachelor of Medicine (MB) with first-class honors and the gold medal for medicine in 1903.A correspondent. "Dr. Helen Chambers." Times ondon, they had treated England26 July 1935: 16. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 21 Apr. 2018. She earned her Bachelor of Surgery (BS) in 1904, and in the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide Casely-Hayford
Adelaide Casely-Hayford, Order of the British Empire, MBE (née Smith; 2 June 1868 – 24 January 1960), was a Sierra Leone Creole people, Sierra Leone Creole advocate, an activist of cultural nationalism, a teacher and fiction writer and a feminist. Committed to public service, she worked to improve the conditions of black men and women. As a pioneer of women's education in Sierra Leone, she played a key role in popularizing Pan-Africanism, Pan-Africanist and feminist politics in the early 1900s. She set up a Girls' Vocational and Training School in Freetown in 1923 to instil cultural and racial pride for Sierra Leoneans under Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate, colonial rule. In pursuit of Sierra Leone national identity and cultural heritage, she created a sensation by wearing traditional African attire in 1925 to attend a reception in honour of the Edward VIII, Prince of Wales. Early life and education Adelaide Smith was born on 2 June 1868 to an elite family in Freetown, Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoe Cameron
Zoe Cameron (born 1960) is a Jersey physician and former politician. A general practitioner, she served as a Senator of Jersey from October 2014 to July 2016. She was the Bailiwick's only female senator during her term of office. She resigned from the States of Jersey on 12 July 2016, stating that she had "failed to keep my promises to the electorate", and referencing the inaccessibility of the Bailiwick's Council of Ministers and issues with the health department. Cameron was born on Jersey. She was educated at St Mary's Primary School, Jersey, and at Jersey College for Girls. She then studied medicine at the University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Cameron, Zoe Living people 1960 births Jersey women in politics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence Baron
Dame Florence Jacqueline Baron, DBE (7 October 1952 – 9 December 2013), judicially styled The Hon. Mrs Justice Baron, was a British barrister and High Court Judge. Early life and education Baron was born to Owsiej ("Jose") and Ellen Elizabeth Baron in Kingsbury, London. The family emigrated to the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland a couple of years later and remained there until 1960 when they returned to London, then Jersey. Baron was educated at Jersey College for Girls. She studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics and then law (changing subject after her first year) at St Hugh's College, Oxford. As an undergraduate she met her lifelong partner, John Pringle Nodwell Tonna, whom she did not marry until 29 January 2013 after she was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer. Legal career Barrister Baron was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1976 and became a QC in 1995. She specialised in matrimonial finance law at Queen Elizabeth Building (QEB) chambers, becoming t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jersey College For Girls A
Jersey ( , ; nrf, Jèrri, label=Jèrriais ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (french: Bailliage de Jersey, links=no; Jèrriais: ), is an island country and self-governing Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west France. It is the largest of the Channel Islands and is from the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy. The Bailiwick consists of the main island of Jersey and some surrounding uninhabited islands and rocks including Les Dirouilles, Les Écréhous, Les Minquiers, and Les Pierres de Lecq. Jersey was part of the Duchy of Normandy, whose dukes became kings of England from 1066. After Normandy was lost by the kings of England in the 13th century, and the ducal title surrendered to France, Jersey remained loyal to the English Crown, though it never became part of the Kingdom of England. Jersey is a self-governing parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy, with its own financial, legal and judicial systems, and the power of self-determination. The island ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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