Pioneering advocate for women's education and suffrage. Born Nottingham. Studied at Bedford College, and then Girton College, Cambridge. Taught classics for income and wrote influentially on women's education and suffrage. Unmarried, died at home, 45 Clevedon Mansions, where the plaque is. Girton have an annual prize in her name.
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Alice Zimmern
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Alice Zimmern
Alice Zimmern, 1855 - 1939, pioneering advocate for women's education and suf...
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Sunday Schools (centenary)
Workhouses.org informs that schools for children on Sundays probably happened earlier but the movement started in 1780 when Robert Raikes opened a school in Gloucester.
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Red House - John Lyon School
Bought by the school in 1956, its opening in 2013 was probably following a major refurbishment of some kind. At Lyonian Association we learnt: "The Red House Memorial Garden contains several trees...
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Charterhouse School
Founded by Thomas Sutton in 1611, the year of his death. An ex-Carthusian priory near Smithfield was used for the school - thus pupils are known as Carthusians. Sutton was buried in the chapel. Th...
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William Ward (benefactor)
Merchant in the City of London. Founded City of London School for Girls. In his will, dated 3 June 1881, left £20,000 to the City of London towards a girls' high school, the residue 'to be applied...
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