Maria Elise Allman Marchant, also known as Ella Allman-Marchant (28 October 1869–15 November 1919) was a New Zealand school principal. She was born in

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, one of eleven children of John William Allman Marchant, who later became Surveyor-General of New Zealand. She attended Wellington Girls' High School, where she was dux in 1887. While working full-time as a teacher in Wellington she studied off-campus through

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and graduated BA in 1892 and MA in 1894. She served as principal of

Otago Girls' High School , motto_translation = The Right Education Makes The Heart As Strong As Oak , type = State , grades = 9 - 13 , grades_label = Years , gender = Girls-only , established = ; years ago , address = 41 Tennyson Street ...

from 1895 to 1911. She resigned in order to dedicate herself to the cause of religious education. She worked in that field in

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and was the acting headmistress of St John's Girls' School in

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at the time of her sudden death in November 1919.

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