St Paul's Girls' School is a

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for girls, aged 11 to 18, located in

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, in

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, England. The school is included in

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as one of the world's 150 best private schools and among top 30 UK senior schools. In 2025 SPGS was named the London Independent School of the Year for Academic Excellence and the Independent School of the Year by Academic Excellence by the Sunday Times Newspaper (Parent's Power

History

St Paul's Girls' School was founded by the

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in 1904, using part of the endowment of the foundation set up by

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, to create a girls' school to complement the

boys' school Single-sex education, also known as single-gender education, same-sex education, same-gender education, and gender-isolated education, is the practice of conducting education with male and female students attending separate classes, perhaps in se ...

he had founded in the sixteenth century. The governors hold proprietorial responsibility, and some are representatives of the Universities of

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and

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. The buildings for the school were designed by the architect

Gerald Horsley Gerald Callcott Horsley (31 October 1862, in Glasgow – 2 July 1917, in Crowborough, East Sussex)*Gerhard Bissell, ''Horsley, Gerald'', in: ''Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon'', vol. 75, 2012 (in German) was a British architect and draughtsman wh ...

, son of the painter

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and one of the founder members of the

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. The school has had several distinguished directors of music, most notably

Gustav Holst Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for his orchestral suite ''The Planets'', he composed many other works across a range ...

(1905–34) and

Herbert Howells Herbert Norman Howells (17 October 1892 – 23 February 1983) was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music. Life Background and early education Howells was born in Lydney, Gloucest ...

(1936–62). Holst composed his ''

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'' and ''

'' suites for the pupils at the school. Holst also composed what is arguably his best known work, "

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", while teaching at St Paul's. John Linton Gardner held a part-time position as director of music at the school.

Exam results

St Paul's girls regularly perform extremely well in the

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s and

A Levels The A-level (Advanced Level) is a subject-based qualification conferred as part of the General Certificate of Education, as well as a school leaving qualification offered by the educational bodies in the United Kingdom and the educational a ...

. In 2014, 99.3% of GCSEs were graded at A*s or As with 93.6% graded at A* alone. This was the highest ever A* percentage achieved by the school and in the country. In 2016, the school achieved the highest A Level results in its history with 60.0% of entries achieving an A* grade and 93.8% of entries achieving A* or A grades. In 2023, 80.5% of GCSE entries were awarded a 9 grade and 94% of entries gained an 8 or 9 (which are equivalent to the old A* grade). This is the eleventh consecutive year that the proportion of A* equivalent grades has exceeded 90%. In the 2023 A level and Pre-U results, 53% of entries attained an A* grade (or the Pre-U equivalent D1 or D2). 87.04% of entries achieved an A* or A grade and 97.1% a B grade or higher (or the Pre-U equivalent of M1 or M2).

Music

was director of music at the school from 1905 to 1934 when he died, including the period he composed his

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s, including ''

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'' and ''

''. He was succeeded by

before John Gardner followed in the 1960s. Gardner wrote many memorable pieces for the school, including his popular Christmas carols ''

Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day "Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing-day" is an English carol usually attributed as "traditional"; its first written appearance is in William B. Sandys' ''Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern'' of 1833. However, it is almost certainly of a much earlier ...

'' and ''The Holly and the Ivy''.

Hilary Davan Wetton Hilary John Davan Wetton (born 23 December 1943) is a British conducting, conductor. Biography He has married three times, in 1964 to Elizabeth Tayler and in 1989 to Alison Kelly. He is married to Professor Tonia Vincent with whom he has one d ...

was director of music from 1979 to 1994. In 1988 a CD with ''Children's favorite songs'' was released on the label

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Drama

The school's main theatre, where most school productions are staged, is named after alumna

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. Other productions are staged in the drama studio which is a smaller space.

Sport

Rowing

The school has an active

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club called the St Paul's Girls' School Boat Club which is based on the

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. The club is affiliated to

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(boat code SPG) and has produced four British champion crews at the

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2002 British Rowing Championships The 2002 British Rowing Championships known as the National Championships at the time, were the 31st edition of the National Championships, held from 19–21 July 2002 at the National Water Sports Centre in Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham. They we ...

2003 British Rowing Championships The 2003 British Rowing Championships known as the National Championships at the time, were the 32nd edition of the National Championships, held from 18–20 July 2003 at the Strathclyde Country Park in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire. They were or ...

and

2011 British Rowing Championships The 2011 British Rowing Championships were the 40th edition of the National Championships, held from 15 to 17 July 2011 at the National Water Sports Centre in Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham. They were organised and sanctioned by British Rowing, a ...

High Mistresses

The headmistress of St Paul's Girls' School is known as the High Mistress. * Frances Ralph Grey (d.1935), High Mistress 1903–1927 *

Ethel Strudwick Ethel Strudwick (3 April 1880 – 15 August 1954) was a British headteacher and Liberal Party activist. Strudwick was born in Fulham, the daughter of John and Harriet Strudwick, her father being a prominent Pre-Raphaelite artist. She was edu ...

(1880–1954), High Mistress 1927–1948, daughter of the

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painter

John Melhuish Strudwick John Melhuish Strudwick (6 May 1849 in Clapham, London – 16 July 1937 in Hammersmith), was a British Pre-Raphaelite painter. Early life Strudwick was the son of William Strudwick (1808–1861) and Sarah Melhuish (1800–1862). He attended St ...

*Margaret Osborn (1906–1985), High Mistress 1948–1963 * Alison Munro (1914–2008), High Mistress 1964–1974 *

Heather Brigstocke, Baroness Brigstocke Heather Brigstocke, Baroness Brigstocke, Baroness Griffiths, CBE (2 September 1929 – 30 April 2004) was a British educator, academic and Conservative Life Peer. Life She was born into a working-class family as Heather Renwick Brown in ...

(1929–2004), High Mistress 1974–1989 *Helen Elizabeth Webber Williams (born 1938), High Mistress 1989–1992 *Janet Gough (born 1940), High Mistress 1993–1998 *Elizabeth Mary Diggory (1945–2007), High Mistress 1998–2006 *Clarissa Mary Farr (born 1958), High Mistress 2006–2017 *Sarah Fletcher, High Mistress 2017–present

Alumnae

Alumnae of the school, known as "Old Paulinas", include:

Arts

Gillian Ayres Gillian Ayres (3 February 1930 – 11 April 2018) was an English painter. She is best known for abstract painting and printmaking using vibrant colours, which earned her a Turner Prize nomination. Early life and education Gillian Ayres was bo ...

– artist *

Mischa Barton Mischa Anne Marsden Barton (born 24 January 1986) is a British-American film, television, and stage actress. She began her career on the stage, appearing in Tony Kushner's '' Slavs!'' and took the lead in James Lapine's '' Twelve Dreams'' at ...

– actress * Nicola Beauman – publisher, founder of

Persephone Books ''Persephone Books'' is an independent publisher based in Bath, England. Founded in 1999 by Nicola Beauman, Persephone Books reprints works largely by women writers of the late 19th and 20th century, though a few books by men are included. Th ...

Helen Binyon Helen Francesca Mary Binyon (9 December 1904 – 22 November 1979) was a British artist and writer. She was also a watercolour painter, an illustrator and a puppeteer. Biography Binyon was born in Chelsea, London, Chelsea in London, her father ...

– artist *

Lesley Blanch Lesley Blanch (6 June 19047 May 2007) was a British writer and traveller. She is best known for '' The Wilder Shores of Love'', about Isabel Burton (who married the Arabist and explorer Richard), Jane Digby el-Mezrab (Lady Ellenborough, the so ...

– author *

Justin Blanco White Margaret Justin Blanco White OBE ARIBA (11 December 1911 – 1 November 2001) was an English architect, who lived and worked in Scotland. Early life and education Margaret Justin Blanco White was born at 30 Pembroke Square, Kensington, London ...

– architect *

Celia Brayfield Celia Brayfield (born 1945) is an English author, academic and cultural commentator. Biography Brayfield was born in the north London suburb of Wembley Park. She won a place at St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith, West London, and spent a y ...

– author *

Sophie Hunter Sophie Irene Hunter (born 16 March 1978) is an English theatre director, playwright and former actress and singer. She made her directorial debut in 2007 co-directing the experimental play ''The Terrific Electric'' at the Barbican Pit after her ...

– theatre and opera director *

Brigid Brophy Brigid Antonia Brophy (married name Brigid Levey, later Lady Levey; 12 June 19297 August 1995), was an English author, literary critic and polemicist. She was an influential campaigner who agitated for many types of social reform, including ...

– dramatist *

Lucy Briers Lucy Jane Briers is an English actress. Her film, stage and television roles have included appearances in ''Pride and Prejudice'' (1995) and sitcom '' Game On''. Early life and education Lucy Jane Briers was born in Hammersmith, London. She is ...

– actress * Margaret Calvert – graphic artist *

Miranda Carter Miranda Carter (born 1965) is an English historian, writer and biographer, who also publishes fiction under the name M. J. Carter. Education Carter was educated at St Paul's Girls School and Exeter College, Oxford. Career Carter's first book w ...

– biographer *

Edie Campbell Edith Blanche Campbell (born 25 September 1990) is an English model. In 2016, she made her second appearance on the cover of British Vogue. She has been a model for Chanel, Burberry and Hermès and is also an accomplished horse rider. Career C ...

– model *

Cecilia Chancellor Cecilia Mary Chancellor (born 1 September 1966) is a British model who has worked consistently since the 1980s and has been referred to as the living embodiment of the "London Girl" by ''British Vogue'' creative director Robin Derrick in his ...

– model *

Joan Cross Joan Cross CBE (7 September 1900 – 12 December 1993) was an English soprano, closely associated with the operas of Benjamin Britten. She also sang in the Italian and German operatic repertoires. She later became a musical administrator, taking ...

– singer *

Emma Darwin Emma Darwin (; 2 May 1808 – 2 October 1896) was an English woman who was the wife and first cousin of Charles Darwin. They were married on 29 January 1839 and were the parents of ten children, seven of whom survived to adulthood. Early lif ...

– author *

Monica Dickens Monica Enid Dickens, MBE (10 May 1915 – 25 December 1992) was an English writer, the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens. Biography Known as "Monty" to her family and friends, she was born into an upper-middle-class London family to Henr ...

– author *

Suzi Digby Susan Elizabeth Digby, Baroness Eatwell Order of the British Empire, OBE (née Watts; born 1 July 1958), known as Suzi Digby, is a British choral conductor and music educator. Early life Born in Japan as Susan Elizabeth Watts, she attended F ...

– conductor and musician * Flora Fraser – author *

Justine Frischmann Justine Elinor Frischmann (born 16 September 1969) is an English artist and retired musician. After forming Suede, she co-founded the Britpop band Elastica before retiring from the music industry and pursuing a career as an artist. Early years ...

– retired musician and artist *

Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein) (born Hannah Gluckstein; 13 August 1895 – 10 January 1978) was a List of British painters, British painter, who rejected any forename or English honorifics, honorific (such as "Miss" or "Mr"), also using the names Peter and Hig. Gluck joi ...

– artist *

Francesca Gonshaw Francesca Gonshaw (born 25 November 1959) is an English former actress who appeared in television, theatre and cinema productions in the 1980s. From 1982 to 1987, she appeared as Maria Recamier in the BBC's Allo 'Allo!'' television situati ...

– actress *

Imogen Holst Imogen Clare Holst (; 12 April 1907 – 9 March 1984) was a British composer, arranger, conductor, teacher, musicologist, and festival administrator. The only child of the composer Gustav Holst, she is particularly known for her education ...

– musician * Sarah Hobson – travel writer *

Ursula Howells Ursula Howells (17 September 1922 – 16 October 2005) was an English actress whose elegant presence kept her much in demand for roles in film and television. Life and career Howells was born in London, the daughter of composer Herbert Howells, ...

– actress *

Rachel Johnson Rachel Sabiha Johnson (born 3 September 1965) is a British journalist, television presenter, and author who has appeared frequently on political discussion panels, including ''The Pledge (British TV programme), The Pledge'' on Sky News and BBC ...

– journalist and editor * Jane M. Joseph – musician and composer * Amy Key Clarke – poet and author *

Marghanita Laski Marghanita Laski (24 October 1915 – 6 February 1988) was an English journalist, radio panellist and novelist. She also wrote literary biography, plays and short stories, and contributed about 250,000 additions to the ''Oxford English Diction ...

– author *

Nicola LeFanu Nicola Frances LeFanu (born 28 April 1947) is a British composer, academic, lecturer and director. Life Nicola LeFanu was born in Wickham Bishops, Essex, England, to William LeFanu and Elizabeth Maconchy (also a composer, later Dame Elizabeth ...

– composer *

Amanda Levete Amanda Jane Levete (born 1955) is a British architect and the principal of AL_A. While she worked as a partner at Future Systems, the company was awarded the 1999 Stirling Prize for their work on the Lord's Media Centre. She has also received s ...

– architect *

Alice Lowe Alice Eva Lowe (born 3 April 1977)England & Wales births 1837 – 2006 is an English actress, writer, director, and comedian. She has appeared as Dr. Haynes in '' Black Mirror: Bandersnatch'' and Madeleine Wool/Liz Asher in ''Garth Marenghi's ...

– actress/author * Jessica Mann – author *

Yvonne Mitchell Yvonne Mitchell (born Yvonne Frances Joseph; 7 July 1915 – 24 March 1979) was an English actress and author. After beginning her acting career in theatre, Mitchell progressed to films in the late 1940s. Her roles include Julia in the 1954 BB ...

– actress/author *

Emily Mortimer Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer (born 6 October 1971) is a British and American actress and filmmaker. She began acting in stage productions and has since appeared in several film and television roles. In 2003, she won an Independent Spirit Award ...

– actress *

Lucy Moss Lucy Amelia Nancy Moss (born 13 January 1994) is a British musical theatre composer, lyricist, playwright, writer, and director best known for co-creating the hit musical ''Six'' with Toby Marlow. As director of most ''Six'' productions, Moss bec ...

- playwright/director * Santha Rama Rau – author *

Joely Richardson Joely Kim Richardson (born 9 January 1965) is a British actress. She is notable for her roles as Julia McNamara in the FX drama series '' Nip/Tuck'' (2003–2010) and Katherine Parr in the Showtime series ''The Tudors'' (2010). Her credits in ...

– actress *

Natasha Richardson Natasha Jane Richardson (11 May 1963 – 18 March 2009) was a British actress. A part of the Redgrave family, Richardson was the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director/producer Tony Richardson and the granddaughter of Michael Redgr ...

– actress *

Georgina Rylance Georgina Elizabeth Rylance (born 20 April 1976) is an English actress, best known for '' Dinotopia''. Early life Born in Ladbroke Grove in 1976, Rylance has a younger sister, Charlotte, and is the daughter of Judge John Rylance KC, a circuit ju ...

– actress * Katherine Shonfield – architect *

Dodie Smith Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith (3 May 1896 – 24 November 1990) was an English novelist and playwright. She is best known for writing '' I Capture the Castle'' (1948) and the children's novel '' The Hundred and One Dalmatians'' (1956). Other work ...

– playwright * Catherine Storr – author *

Imogen Stubbs Imogen Stubbs (born 20 February 1961) is an English actress and writer. Her first leading part was in '' Privileged'' (1982), followed by '' A Summer Story'' (1988). Her first play, ''We Happy Few'', was produced in 2004. In 2008 she joined ' ...

– actress *

Emma Tennant Emma Christina Tennant FRSL (20 October 1937 – 21 January 2017) was an English novelist and editor of Scottish extraction, known for a post-modern approach to her fiction, often imbued with fantasy or magic. Several of her novels give a femi ...

– author *

Angela Thirkell Angela Margaret Thirkell (; , 30 January 1890 – 29 January 1961) was an English and Australian novelist. She also published one novel, ''Trooper to Southern Cross'', under the pseudonym Leslie Parker. Early life Angela Margaret Mackail was ...

– author * Mary Treadgold – author * Salley Vickers – author * Samantha Weinberg – author *

Rachel Weisz Rachel Hannah Weisz (; born 7 March 1970) is an English actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received List of awards and nominations received by Rachel Weisz, several awards, including an Academy Award, ...

– actress *

Antonia White Antonia White (born Eirene Adeline Botting; 31 March 1899 – 10 April 1980) was a British writer and translator, known primarily for ''Frost in May'', a semi-autobiographical novel set in a convent school. It was the first book reissued by Vira ...

– author

Business

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– wealthiest woman in Africa as of 2020 * Grace Beverley – founder of Tala and Shreddy

Culinary arts

Thomasina Miers Thomasina Jean Miers, Order of the British Empire, OBE (born February 1976) is an English cook, writer and television presenter. She is the co-founder of the Wahaca chain of Mexican street food restaurants. Early life Thomasina Jean Miers wa ...

– chef and founder of ''Wahaca'' restaurant chain * Henrietta Lovell – founder of the Rare Tea Company

Education

Eleanora Carus-Wilson Eleanora Mary Carus-Wilson, FBA (1897 – 1 February 1977) was a Canadian-British economic historian. Known for her work on rural Medieval textile industries in England, she made significant contributions to the understanding of that technolog ...

– economic historian * Sheila Forbes – former principal,

St Hilda's College, Oxford St Hilda's College (full name = Principal and Council of St. Hilda's College, Oxford) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. The college is named after the Anglo-Saxon saint Hilda of Whitby and was founded in 1893 as a ...

* Henrietta Harrison – professor of Modern Chinese Studies,

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Jessica Rawson Dame Jessica Mary Rawson, (born 20 January 1943) is an English art historian, curator and sinologist, specialising in Chinese art. She is also an academic administrator. After many years at the British Museum, she was Warden (head) of Merton C ...

– warden,

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Barbara Reynolds Eva Mary Barbara Reynolds (13 June 1914 – 29 April 2015) was an English scholar of Italian Studies, lexicographer and translator. She wrote and edited several books concerning Dorothy Sayers and was president of the Dorothy L. Sayers Soc ...

– scholar *

Joan Robinson Joan Violet Robinson ( Maurice; 31 October 1903 – 5 August 1983) was a British economist known for her wide-ranging contributions to economic theory. One of the most prominent economists of the century, Robinson incarnated the "Cambridge Sc ...

– economist

Humanitarianism

* Myrtle Solomon – pacifist and former chair War Resisters' International * Ruth Wyner – homeless charity director

Law

* Sonia Proudman – High Court Judge

Journalism and media

Emily Buchanan Emily Margesson Buchanan is a British journalist who has worked for the BBC, in both radio and television. Early life Born in Hammersmith, West London, Buchanan is the daughter of George Buchanan, a novelist and poet from Northern Ireland, and t ...

– BBC World Affairs correspondent *

Clemency Burton-Hill Clemency Margaret Greatrex Burton-Hill (born 17 March 1981) is an English broadcaster, author, novelist, journalist, and violinist. In her early career she also worked as an actress. In January 2020 she suffered a brain haemorrhage caused by a ...

– broadcaster and author *

– model and socialite *

Victoria Coren Mitchell Victoria Elizabeth Coren Mitchell (' Coren; born ) is a British writer, TV presenter and professional poker player. She writes weekly columns for ''The Daily Telegraph'' and has hosted the BBC television quiz show '' Only Connect'' since 2008 ...

– presenter, poker player *

Daisy Donovan Daisy Constance Donovan (born 23 July 1973) is an English television presenter, actress and writer. Early life Donovan was born in London. Her father was fashion photographer and film director Terence Donovan; her mother, Diana (''née'' St. ...

– TV presenter *

Stephanie Flanders Stephanie Hope Flanders (born 5 August 1968) is a British economist and journalist, currently the head of Economics and Politics at Bloomberg News. She was previously chief market strategist for Britain and Europe for J.P. Morgan Asset Manageme ...

– BBC Economics editor *

Amelia Gentleman Amelia Sophie Gentleman (born 1972) is a British journalist. She is a reporter for ''The Guardian'', and won the Paul Foot Award in 2018 for reporting the Windrush scandal. Early life and education Born in London in 1972, Gentleman is the da ...

– journalist * Bridget Harrison – journalist *

Bronwen Maddox Bronwen Maria Maddox (born 7 May 1963) is a former journalist who has served as the director and CEO of think tank Chatham House since August 2022. Prior to this, she was the Director of the Institute for Government between 2016 and 2022. Madd ...

– senior journalist at '

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' newspaper *

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– news reader *

Susanna Reid Susanna Victoria Reid (born 10 December 1970) is an English television presenter and journalist. She was a co-presenter of '' BBC Breakfast'' from 2001 until 2014 alongside Bill Turnbull and Charlie Stayt. She also presented '' Sunday Morning ...

– news presenter *

Anne Scott-James Anne Eleanor Scott-James, Lady Lancaster (5 April 1913 – 13 May 2009) was a British journalist and author. She was one of Britain's first female career journalists, editors and columnists, and latterly author of a series of gardening boo ...

– journalist and editor *

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– editor-in-chief, Vogue 1992–2017 *

Carol Thatcher Carol Jane Thatcher (born 15 August 1953) is an English journalist, author and media personality. She is the daughter of Margaret Thatcher, the British prime minister from 1979 to 1990, and businessman Denis Thatcher. She has written biographi ...

– journalist *

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– author, critic, and literary editor of ''

'' *

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– journalist and Labour politician *

Petronella Wyatt Petronella "Petsy" Aspasia Wyatt (born 6 May 1968) is a British journalist and author. Early life and education Wyatt was born on 6 May 1968 at 12 Devonshire Street, London, England. Her parents were the journalist and Labour MP Woodrow Wyatt ...

– journalist

Politics

* Jane Bonham Carter –

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peer *

Vicky Ford Victoria Grace Ford ( Pollock, 21 September 1967) is a British politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chelmsford from 2017 to 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, she briefly served as Minister of State for Development from ...

, Conservative MP and formerly MEP *

Harriet Harman Harriet Ruth Harman, Baroness Harman, (born 30 July 1950), is a British politician and solicitor who served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party (UK), Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and Chair of the Labour Party (UK), Chair of the Labour Pa ...

– Labour MP, former Acting Leader of the Labour Party, former Leader of the Opposition and former Cabinet minister *

Susan Kramer Susan Veronica Kramer, Baroness Kramer PC (''née'' Richards; born 21 July 1950) is a British politician and life peer who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond Park from 2005 to 2010. A member of the Liberal Democrats, she was the ...

– former Liberal Democrat MP *

Mavis Tate Mavis Constance Tate (born Maybird Hogg; 17 August 1893 – 5 June 1947) was a British Conservative politician and campaigner for British women's rights. Early life Maybird Hogg was daughter of Guy Weir Hogg (1861-1943), a diplomat who served ...

– Conservative MP and women's rights campaigner *

Anne-Marie Trevelyan Anne-Marie Belinda Trevelyan (née Beaton; born 6 April 1969) is a British politician who served as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (United Kingdom), Minister of State for Indo-Pacific under Rishi Sunak between October 2022 to July 2024. ...

, Conservative MP *

Jo Valentine, Baroness Valentine Josephine Clare Valentine, Baroness Valentine (born 8 December 1958) is a Crossbench member of the British House of Lords. Career Baroness Valentine's career spans the City, industry, campaigning and regeneration. She now has a portfolio caree ...

– member of the British House of Lords *

– Labour

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Shirley Williams Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby (''née'' Catlin; 27 July 1930 – 12 April 2021) was a British politician and academic. Originally a Labour Party (UK), Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP), she served in ...

– former Labour Education Secretary and co-founder of the

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Science

* Kate Bingham – venture capitalist * Ruth Bowden – anatomist * Caroline Deys – doctor *

Rosalind Franklin Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 192016 April 1958) was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer. Her work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal ...

– scientist, research led to discovery of the structure of DNA * Jean Ginsburg – physiologist, endocrinologist *

Christine Hamill Christine Mary Hamill (24 July 1923 – 24 March 1956) was an English mathematician who specialised in group theory and finite geometry. Education Hamill was one of the four children of English physiologist Philip Hamill. She attended St Pa ...

– mathematician *

Kathleen Kenyon Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon, (5 January 1906 – 24 August 1978) was a British archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. She led excavations of Tell es-Sultan, the site of ancient Jericho, from 1952 to 1958, and has been called ...

– archaeologist *

Irene Manton Irene Manton, Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS Linnean Society of London, FLS (born Irène Manton; 17 April 1904, in Kensington – 13 May 1988) was a British botanist who was Professor of Botany at the University of Leeds. She was noted for st ...

– botanist *

Sidnie Manton Sidnie Milana Manton (4 May 1902 – 2 January 1979) was an influential British zoologist. She is known for making advances in the field of functional morphology. She is regarded as being one of the most outstanding zoologists of the twentieth ...

– entomologist *

Onora O'Neill Onora Sylvia O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve (born 23 August 1941) is a British philosopher and a crossbench member of the House of Lords. Early life and education Onora Sylvia O'Neill was born on 23 August 1941 in Aughafatten. The daug ...

– philosopher *

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (born Cecilia Helena Payne; – ) was a British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist. Her work on the cosmic makeup of the universe and the nature of variable stars was foundational to modern astrophysics. She ...

– astronomer *

Catherine Peckham Catherine Stevenson Peckham (née King; born 7 March 1937) is a British paediatrician. Peckham was the first Professor of Paediatric Epidemiology in the UK, and established the Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the UCL Ins ...

– doctor and scientist *

Joan Beauchamp Procter Joan Beauchamp Procter (5 August 1897 – 20 September 1931) was a notable British zoologist, internationally recognised as an outstanding herpetologist. She worked initially at the British Museum (Natural History) and later for the Zoological ...

– zoologist, herpetologist

Sport

* Kitty Godfree – tennis player * Lara Prior-Palmer – equestrian * Cecilia Robinson – cricket * Zoe de Toledo – rowing

Notable former staff

Margaret Cole Dame Margaret Isabel Cole ( Postgate; 6 May 1893 – 7 May 1980) was an English socialist politician, writer and poet. She wrote several detective stories jointly with her husband, G. D. H. Cole. She went on to hold important posts in London ...

– socialist politician, former

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teacher *

– composer, pioneer of music education for girls *

– director of music during the 1970s * Clara Taylor – chemist and science teacher, 1913-1921

Controversy

The school was in the news in November 2017 with allegations of sexual abuse between the 1970s and 1990s. One teacher resigned on 22 November 2017 amidst these allegations.

References

External links

Official School Website
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