Gladys Madge Colton

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(1909 – 24 April 1986), was an

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schoolmistress and educationist. She was head mistress of the

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from 1949 to 1972 and a Fellow of the

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Life

The elder daughter of William Henry Colton, Gladys Colton was educated at

Wycombe High School Wycombe High School is a girls' grammar school in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire taking girls from the age of 11 to 18. The school became an academy in 2011, and in 2020 had 1,308 pupils. History The school was the first state grammar school for ...

and

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, where she graduated BA in History, then took a postgraduate Diploma in Education.‘COLTON, Gladys M.’, in '' Who Was Who 1981–1990'' (London: A. & C. Black, 1991, ); online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007 Colton was a schoolmistress at Slepe Hall, St Ives, from 1932 to 1937, then taught at Beaminster Grammar School in

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from 1937 to 1941, when she was appointed as senior history mistress at Ealing Grammar School for Girls. She was deputy second mistress there when in 1949 she was chosen as head of the

. One of her students later described her as "a tall, elegant lady; the epitome of dignity". She retired in 1972 and is remembered at the school as an outstanding administrator.History of CLSG
at clsg.org.uk, accessed 2 February 2014 Colton was elected a

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of the

and between 1969 and 1973 was a member of its Council. She was also a member of the Governing Body of the

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from 1957 to 1962 and of the

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Nurse Education Committee from 1962 to 1972.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Colton, Gladys Madge 1909 births 1986 deaths Alumni of University College London Heads of schools in England People educated at Wycombe High School People from High Wycombe