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Sarah Allen Olney
Sarah Allen Olney (12 May 1842 – 10 September 1915) was a British headmistress. She was the founding head at two schools. She was first head of Blackheath High School and she left there to join with her sister, Rebecca Olney, to create "The Eves". Life Olney was born in Saltash. She was one of at least six children. Her parents were Jane Ann (born Carpenter) and Henry Allen Olney. Her father was a solicitor and her mother owned a private school in the west of England. She had a talent for languages which was assisted by her European travels. When she was back in Britain she passed the University of St Andrews's higher local examinations and the external LLA examination. Her sister Rebecca was employed as a headmistress at St John's Wood by the Girls' Public Day School Company (GPDSC) and in 1879 they employed Sarah as her assistant head teacher. When the GPDSC opened another school in Blackheath in 1880 Sarah was appointed as head of that school. She joined other GPDSC notable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saltash
Saltash (Cornish: Essa) is a town and civil parish in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It had a population of 16,184 in 2011 census. Saltash faces the city of Plymouth over the River Tamar and is popularly known as "the Gateway to Cornwall". Saltash’s landmarks include the Tamar Bridge which connects Plymouth to Cornwall by road, and the Royal Albert Bridge. The area of Latchbrook is part of the town. Description Saltash is the location of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge, opened by Prince Albert on 2 May 1859. It takes the railway line across the River Tamar. Alongside it is the Tamar Bridge, a toll bridge carrying the A38 trunk road, which in 2001 became the first suspension bridge to be widened whilst remaining open to traffic. Saltash railway station, which has a regular train service, with some routes between London Paddington station is close to the town centre. Stagecoach South West, Plymouth Citybus, and Go Cornwall Bus operate bus service ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriet Morant Jones
Harriet(t) may refer to: * Harriet (name), a female name ''(includes list of people with the name)'' Places *Harriet, Queensland, rural locality in Australia * Harriet, Arkansas, unincorporated community in the United States * Harriett, Texas, unincorporated community in the United States Ships * ''Harriet'' (1798 ship), built at Pictou Shipyard, Nova Scotia, Canada * ''Harriet'' (1802 EIC ship), East India Company ship * ''Harriet'' (1810 ship), American ship * ''Harriet'' (1813 ship), American ship * ''Harriet'' (1829 ship), British Royal Navy ship * ''Harriet'' (1836 ship), British ship * ''Harriet'' (fishing smack), 1893 British trawler preserved in Fleetwood Museum Other * Harriet (band), an alternative Americana band from Los Angeles * ''Harriet'' (film), a 2019 biographical film about Harriet Tubman * ''Harriet the Spy'' (TV series), a 2021 animated TV series * List of storms named Harriet See also * * Harriot (other) * Harry (other) * Harriette ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1915 Deaths
Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January *January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". *January 1 ** WWI: British Royal Navy battleship HMS ''Formidable'' is sunk off Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, by an Imperial German Navy U-boat, with the loss of 547 crew. ** Battle of Broken Hill: A train ambush near Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, is carried out by two men (claiming to be in support of the Ottoman Empire) who are killed, together with 4 civilians. * January 5 – Joseph E. Carberry sets an altitude record of , carrying Capt. Benjamin Delahauf Foulois as a passenger, in a fixed-wing aircraft. * January 12 ** The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote. ** '' A Fool There Was'' premières in the United States, starring Theda Bara as a ''femme fatale''; she quickly becomes one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1842 Births
__NOTOC__ Year 184 ( CLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Eggius and Aelianus (or, less frequently, year 937 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 184 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place China * The Yellow Turban Rebellion and Liang Province Rebellion break out in China. * The Disasters of the Partisan Prohibitions ends. * Zhang Jue leads the peasant revolt against Emperor Ling of Han of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Heading for the capital of Luoyang, his massive and undisciplined army (360,000 men), burns and destroys government offices and outposts. * June – Ling of Han places his brother-in-law, He Jin, in command of the imperial army and sends them to attack the Yellow Turban rebels. * Winter – Zha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hall School, Hampstead
The Hall School is an independent boys' Preparatory school (UK), preparatory school in Belsize Park, Hampstead, north London, currently teaching boys from age 4 to age 13. Description The school, across its three buildings, a new one being built currently, has a roll of over 432 boys, approximately 60 in each year from Years 1–8 and 40 in Reception. Reception to Year 3 (ages 4–7) are based in the Junior School, Years 4 and 5 (ages 8–10) in the Middle School and Years 6 to 8 (ages 11–13) in the Senior School. The school operates a house system of four houses: Blue, Green, Orange and Purple. These are used throughout the school for academic, physical and musical competitions. The school is known for its pink and grey uniform consisting for many years of a pink school blazer, cap and tie. This would prove somewhat of a target for the other students in the area, as Giles Coren, an old boy, recalled in ''The Times''. History The school originated as Belsize School, founded in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence Gadesden
Florence Marie Armroid Gad(e)sden (1853–1934) was headteacher at the Girls' Public Day School Company's Blackheath High School for over thirty years. Life Many details of Gadesden's early life are unknown but she was born in Paris on the 15 May 1853. Her mother was Esther Elizabeth (born Atlee) and her was John Burnett Gadsden. Her father's family were cheesemongers but he taught music. Her parents had married three years before in her mother's home town of Lewisham and her elder sister Lizzie Gadesden was born in 1851. (Lizzie would also be a headteacher). Gadesden rarely spoke of her family or varied schooling but she did leave the boarding school Sandwell Hall which was led by Frances Laetitia Selwyn. In the following year she was working for Cassandra Worthington as an assistant mistress at Minshull House school in Beckenham. She worked briefly as a governess for Edward North Buxton where she studied further to gain entry to Girton College in Cambridge. She was one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ada Benson
Ada Benson or Ada McDowall (27 November 1840 – 11 October 1882) was a British headmistress and educationist. She is known for her leadership at Oxford High School, Norwich High School for Girls and Bedford High School for Girls. Life Benson was born in Winson Green in 1840. In 1852 she and her siblings became orphans and the children were divided into different homes. Benson and her sister lived with Mary Sidgwick and her husband who was a Reverend in Rugby. Benson's education was overseen by her elder brother Edward White Benson who lived locally and who was in time to be the Archbishop of Canterbury.Ruth Pryor, ‘Benson , Ada (1840–1882)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, October 200accessed 10 October 2016/ref> When she was nineteen her brother agreed that she could continue to study and work as a governess in Germany. Her German was good enough for her to be able to publish her translation of John Ruskin's ''King of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorinda Neligan
Dorinda Neligan (9 June 1833 – 17 July 1914) was an Irish born English headmistress and suffragette. Life Neligan was born in Cork in 1833. She was the fifth child of Lieutenant Thomas Neligan. Despite having a soldier as a father she objected to war. She was educated at home, in Paris and Germany and she went on to work as a "finishing governess". She then did notable work leading nursing at the siege of Metz during the Franco Prussian War from 1870 to 1871. She learned French and German and taught French, and Neligan was the founding head of Croydon High School in 1874, where she remained for 27 years. The school was backed by Maria Georgina Grey and was part of the Girls' Public Day School Company and it opened with 88 pupils. She had grabbed some ivy from the school walls for the girls to wear in their hair to be 'distinctive' at the first girls day schools' company prize giving. She lived (as recorded in the 1811 Census), as head of the household of women (presumably st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Alger
Mary Jemima Alger (4 February 1838 – 17 March 1894) was a British headmistress. She was the founding head for three schools started by the Girls' Public Day School Company at Clapham, Sheffield and Dulwich. She had no formal academic qualifications but she created and ran three successful schools when girls were first being offered high school education. Life Alger was born on 4 February 1838 at Diss, Norfolk, she was one of several daughters of John Alger, a corn merchant, and his wife Jemima (born Goldworth). Her only brother was the journalist John Goldworth Alger. Her brother went to school and he was writing for the ''Norfolk News The ''Norfolk News'' was a regional weekly newspaper, published every Saturday, in Exchange Street, Norwich, England. The publication was founded in January, 1845, and ceased publication in 1961. The area it covered was the whole of Norfolk. Copi ...'' at age sixteen. She had a varied private education and she taught in private schools. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ormea
Ormea is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about south of Turin and about southeast of Cuneo. Ormea borders the following municipalities: Alto, Armo, Briga Alta, Caprauna, Cosio di Arroscia, Frabosa Soprana, Garessio, Magliano Alpi, Nasino, Pornassio, Roburent, and Roccaforte Mondovì. See also * Monte Armetta * Monte della Guardia The Monte della Guardia is a mountain in Piedmont, northern Italy, part of the Alps. At an altitude of 1,658 metres is one of the highest summits of the Ligurian Prealps. Geography The mountain stands on the main chain of the Alps between ... References Cities and towns in Piedmont {{Cuneo-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girls' Day School Trust
The Girls' Day School Trust (GDST) is a group of 25 independent schools, including two academies, in England and Wales, catering for girls aged 3 to 18. It is the largest group of independent schools in the UK, and educates 20,000 girls each year. It was formed in 1872 to provide affordable day-school (non-boarding) education for girls as The Girls' Public Day School Company (1872–1905), then The Girls' Public Day School Trust (1906–1998). The GDST is a registered charity. In 2016–17 it had a gross income of £261 million, making it one of the 20 largest charities in the UK. History Origins The origins of the GDST can be traced back to the Schools Enquiry Commission set up in 1864 to survey the field of male and female secondary schools, which concluded that there was a "general deficiency" in the provision of secondary education for girls. The challenge to provide education for girls aged over ten was tackled by Maria Grey and her sister Emily Shirreff, who had prev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St John's Wood
St John's Wood is a district in the City of Westminster, London, lying 2.5 miles (4 km) northwest of Charing Cross. Traditionally the northern part of the ancient parish and Metropolitan Borough of Marylebone, it extends east to west from Regent's Park and Primrose Hill to Edgware Road, with the Swiss Cottage area of Hampstead to the north and Lisson Grove to the south. The area is best known for Lord's Cricket Ground, home of Marylebone Cricket Club and Middlesex CCC, and is a regular international test cricket venue. It also includes Abbey Road Studios, well known through its association with the Beatles. Origin The area was once part of the Forest of Middlesex, an area with extensive woodland, though it was not the predominant land use. The area's name originates, in the Manor of Lileston, one of the two manors (the other the Manor of Tyburn) served by the Parish of Marylebone. The Manor was taken from the Knights Templar on their suppression in 1312 and passed to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
