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Leeds Girls High School
Leeds Girls' High School (LGHS) was an independent, selective, fee-paying school for girls aged 3–18 founded in 1876 in Headingley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It merged with Leeds Grammar School in 2005 to form The Grammar School at Leeds. History LGHS was founded in 1876, at a time when female education was limited but expanding. Frances Lupton and other members of the Ladies’ Honorary Council of the Yorkshire Board of Education decided that campaigning for access to the universities was of little use without better all-round education for girls, equivalent to what boys received at traditional academic grammar school. Established interests prevented the use of existing charitable funds, so Lupton and her colleagues created a new way forward: a joint stock company. The school motto was ''Age Quod Agis'', which means "do what you do". While seemingly tautological at first glance, it is in fact a corruption of the Biblical exhortation, "whatsoever thy turn thy hand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Lupton
Frances Elizabeth Lupton (née Greenhow; 20 July 1821 – 9 March 1892) was an Englishwoman of the Victorian era who worked to open up educational opportunities for women. She married into the politically active Lupton family of Leeds, where she co-founded Leeds Girls' High School in 1876 and was the Leeds representative of the North of England Council for Promoting the Higher Education of Women. Early life Lupton was born Frances Elizabeth Greenhow on 20 July 1821, into a medical family in Newcastle upon Tyne. Her father, Thomas Michael Greenhow, co-founded the city's Eye Infirmary, with Sir John Fife, and then Newcastle University Medical School. He worked at Newcastle Infirmary, renamed the Royal Victoria Infirmary, for many years and was instrumental in its expansion in the 1850s. Her mother, Elizabeth, was born into the Martineau family, an intellectual, business, and political dynasty. Many of her relatives were nationally prominent as Unitarians, a branch of English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grammar School At Leeds
The Grammar School at Leeds (GSAL) is an independent fee-charging school in Leeds, England, created on 4 August 2005 by the merger of Leeds Grammar School (founded ) and Leeds Girls' High School (co-founded in 1876 by Frances Lupton). The schools merged in September 2008, at which point the school was opened to both sexes. The school was situated on two sites: the senior school (ages 11–18) and junior school (7–11) at Alwoodley, while the former Leeds Girls' High School site in Headingley is used by the infant school and nursery, however, both schools are at the Alwoodley site now. The school operates as a diamond school, classes for girls and boys between the ages of 11 and 16 are segregated, but extracurricular activities are mixed. Junior school and sixth form classes are coeducational. The school is a member of The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC). In 2020, GSAL was named the Independent School of the Decade for the North by ''The Times''. House stru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Ashe
Laura Ashe is a British historian of English medieval literature, history and culture (–1550). She lectures in English and is a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. She was educated at Leeds Girls' High School (independent). In 2009 Ashe won a Philip Leverhulme Prize, for the international impact of her research. In 2015 she was the presenter for BBC Radio 3's ''A Cultural History of the Plague'' and has taken part as an expert panelist for BBC Radio 4's ''In Our Time'' on the topics of ''The 12th Century Renaissance'', ''Beowulf'', ''Chivalry'' ''Le Morte d'Arthur'', ''Purgatory'', Thomas Becket and Gawain and the Green Knight. She contributed to ''Art that Made Us,'' an eight-part BBC Two BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It covers a wide range of subject matter, with a remit "to broadcast programmes of depth and substance" in contrast to the more mainstream an ... TV series in 2022 presenting an alternat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilyn Stowe
Marilyn Stowe (born 1957) is an English family lawyer. She founded her firm in a converted cobbler’s shop in Halton, Leeds, in 1982. An attack by three masked men outside her office on 3 December 2003 led to the closure of her offices in Leeds, followed by a reopening in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. The success of this office inspired Stowe to open branches across the country, and she eventually grew the firm into the UK’s largest family law specialist. In February 2017 she sold her firm and blog for a ‘substantial’ eight figure sum to private equity investors Living Bridge. Her first clients were legally aided. Later they included members of the aristocracy, and some of the wealthiest and best known figures in the UK and abroad. Early life and education Stowe attended the University of Leeds and lectured in English law at the University of Le Mans, France. As a solicitor, she led the Law society’s Family Law Panel as its first Chief Assessor and Chief Examiner for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Solti
Sir Georg Solti ( , ; born György Stern; 21 October 1912 – 5 September 1997) was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor, known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt and London, and as a long-serving music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Born in Budapest, he studied there with Béla Bartók, Leó Weiner and Ernő Dohnányi. In the 1930s, he was a répétiteur at the Hungarian State Opera and worked at the Salzburg Festival for Arturo Toscanini. His career was interrupted by the rise of the Nazis' influence on Hungarian politics and, being of Jewish background, he fled the increasingly harsh Hungarian anti-Jewish laws in 1938. After conducting a season of Russian ballet in London at the Royal Opera House he found refuge in Switzerland, where he remained during the Second World War. Prohibited from conducting there, he earned a living as a pianist. After the war, Solti was appointed musical director of the Bavarian State O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerie Pitts
Ann Valerie, Lady Solti (née Pitts; 19 August 1937 – 31 March 2021) was a British television presenter who was one of the BBC's original team of presenters during the 1950s. She left the programme in 1960 to marry James Sargent who was stage manager of the Sadler's Wells Opera Company. She also worked at Granada Television. She later married the conductor Sir Georg Solti. Life and career In 1961 Pitts appeared as a patient in the comedy film Dentist on the Job. She met Georg Solti in September 1964 when she interviewed him, fortuitously, as a last minute alternative to replace a missing news item. Solti pursued her romantically and finally persuaded her to leave her husband. They married on 11 November 1967, and had two daughters, Gabrielle and Claudia. She appeared on children's television, as a presenter of '' Play School'' and then at Granada a series for older children, ''ExtraOrdinary'', which covered strange-but-true stories from science and the arts. She gave up her ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
Lilian Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones (born 2 November 1939) is a British politician and former civil servant who served as Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) from 1993 to 1994. A member of the Conservative Party, she served on the National Security Council and was Minister of State for Security and Counter Terrorism at the Home Office from 2010 to 2011. BOn 12 May 2010, Prime Minister David Cameron appointed her as Minister of State for Security and Counter Terrorism in the Home Office with a permanent position on the newly created National Security Council. On 9 May 2011, the BBC reported that Neville-Jones had left her role as Security Minister at "her own request"; her security brief was taken over by James Brokenshire. She was then immediately appointed as "Special Representative to Business on Cyber Security". Education Lady Neville-Jones was educated at Leeds Girls' High School and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (Modern History). Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Mackereth
Sally Mackereth (born 10 February 1966) is a British architect practising in London. After graduating from the Architectural Association in 1995, Mackereth co-founded Wells Mackereth before creating Studio Mackereth in 2013, which the ''Telegraph'' has called one of the best practices in London. Having taught as a senior lecturer at the Royal College of Art from 1997 to 2001, in 2019, Mackereth embarked on a PhD at RMIT researching her design approach alongside running Studio Mackereth. In 2020, Mackereth was invited to head the judging panel for the architecture categories of the Dezeen awards alongside Norman Foster. World Architecture News nominated Mackereth as a finalist for the Female Frontier award in 2021. Mackereth’s work includes a conversion of a Victorian stables in King's Cross, London, a renovation of Winterton Lighthouse, and a new-build gallery in the heart of Mayfair. She has also contributed to media channels including the BBC Radio 4’s ''Woman's Hour'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Kitson Clark
Anna Mary Hawthorn Kitson Clark, (14 May 1905 – 1 February 2005), married name Mary Chitty, was an English archaeologist, curator, and independent scholar. She specialised in the archaeology of Romano-British Northern England but was also involved in excavations outside the United Kingdom and the Roman period. Her 1935 work, ''A Gazetteer of Roman Remains in East Yorkshire'', "remains one of the starting points for any study of the Romans in the north of England". Early life and education Kitson Clark was born on 14 May 1905 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. She was the youngest of three children born to Edwin Kitson Clark (1866–1943) and Georgina Kitson Clark (''née'' Bidder); an elder brother was the historian George Kitson Clark. Her paternal grandfather was Edwin Charles Clark, Regius Professor of Civil Law at Cambridge University, and her maternal great-grandfather was George Parker Bidder, an eminent engineer. Kitson Clark was first educated at home and then at Leed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Killick
Esther Margaret Killick (3 May 1902 – 31 May 1960) was an English physiologist who was a professor of physiology at the London School of Medicine for Women (Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine) from 1941 until her death in 1960. Her main research interests lay in respiratory physiology and carbon monoxide poisoning. Early life and education Killick was born on 3 May 1902 in Ilford to Arthur Killick and Henrietta Fanny (née Moulton). She attended Leeds Girls' High School and went on to study at the University of Leeds, earning a BSc with honours in physiology followed by an MB ChB in 1929. She later received an MSc (1937) and DSc (1952) from Leeds. Career Killick worked in the physiology department of the University of Leeds from 1929 to 1931, as an investigator to the Safety in Mines Research Board. During this period she studied carbon monoxide poisoning and acclimatisation, and collaborated with John Scott Haldane from the University of Birmingham. In 1935, she was ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somerville College, Oxford
Somerville College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. Among its alumnae have been Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Hodgkin, Iris Murdoch, Vera Brittain and Dorothy L. Sayers. It began admitting men in 1994. Its library is one of Oxford's largest college libraries. The college's liberal tone derives from its founding by social liberals, as Oxford's first non-denominational college for women, unlike the Anglican Lady Margaret Hall, the other to open that year. In 1964, it was among the first to cease locking up at night to stop students staying out late. No gowns are worn at formal halls. In 2021 it was recognised as a sanctuary campus by City of Sanctuary UK. It is one of three colleges to offer undergraduates on-site lodging throughout their course. It stands near the Science Area, University Parks, Oxford University Press, Jericho and Green Templeton, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Hughes (civil Servant)
Catherine Eva Hughes (née Pestell; 24 September 1933 – 10 December 2014) was a British diplomat and academic administrator. She served as Principal of Somerville College, Oxford, from 1989 to 1996. Early life and education Hughes was born on 24 September 1933 in County Durham, England, to Edmund Pestell and his wife Isabelle Pestell (née Sangster). Having won a scholarship, she was educated at Leeds Girls' High School, a selective private school in Leeds. She then studied history at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. Diplomatic career Two of her history tutors recognised her academic excellence, encouraged her to apply for St Hilda's, Oxford, a women-only college, in 1952. She passed the civil service with flying colours, and was asked to enter the diplomatic corps. The Foreign Office mandarins were entirely male during her first posting in London. Hughes was sent to The Hague. From there she spent three and a half y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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