Jane Agnes Chessar (1835,

Edinburgh Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian ...

– 3 September 1880,

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) was a British teacher and educationalist.

Life

Educated at private schools in Edinburgh, Chessar travelled to

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in 1851 to train as a teacher. Early in 1852 she took charge of a class at the

Home and Colonial Training College A home, or domicile, is a space used as a permanent or semi-permanent residence for one or many humans, and sometimes various companion animals. It is a fully or semi sheltered space and can have both interior and exterior aspects to it. ...

, raising the reputation of the college over the next fifteen years. After ill-health forced her to resign from this position in 1866, she occupied her time giving lectures and private tuition. She was elected a member of the

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in 1873, but did not seek re-election after forced to leave England for a warmer climate in 1875. Her death was caused by cerebral apoplexy, while she was in Brussels for an educational congress. Chessar edited

Mary Somerville Mary Somerville (; , formerly Greig; 26 December 1780 – 29 November 1872) was a Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and in 1835 she and Caroline Herschel were elected as the first female Honorary ...

's ''Physical Geography'' and William Hughes's ''Physical Geography''. She was a prolific contributor to '' The Queen'' and other newspapers.

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Sources

*Jane Martin & Joyce Goodman, ''Women and education, 1800-1980'', Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 1835 births 1880 deaths Schoolteachers from Edinburgh Members of the London School Board Alumni of the Home and Colonial Training College {{edu-bio-stub