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Cheltenham Ladies' College (CLC) is a private boarding and day school for girls aged 11 or older in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. The school was established in 1853 to provide "a sound academic education for girls". [ 1 ]
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Cheltenham Ladies' College Grace Margaret Hampshire JP (9 July 1918 – 6 June 2004) was a British educator and civil servant who served as principal of Cheltenham Ladies' College from 1964 to 1979. She began her career in the Civil Service as a member of the Board of Trade before working for the textiles firm Courtaulds between 1951 and 1964.
The school was founded on 10 October 1872, with the aim of providing acamedic education to girls on the island. [4] [2] The school was established in order to emulate Cheltenham Ladies' College, [6] [7] by the two joint-secretaries of the Guernsey Ladies' Educational Guild who issued two hundred shares of five pounds each; fittingly, the school's first principal was a former member of staff at ...
With the same aim, she established in 1884 'The Guild of the Ladies' Cheltenham College,' which by 1912 numbered 2,500 members. On 26 October 1889, the Guild started in Bethnal Green the Cheltenham Settlement, which continues as St Hilda's East Community Centre , a house built by past and present pupils and opened on 26 April 1898.
In 1874, Kennedy became assistant mistress of Cheltenham Ladies’ College under Dorothea Beale, until she was appointed first headmistress at the newly founded Leeds Girls’ High School in 1876, opened by subscription to provide education for the town's girls who could not attend the boy's grammar school. [2]
She founded the Old People's Housing Society in Cheltenham, later renamed the Lilian Faithfull Homes. [6] [9] Faithfull was the model for the Helen Butterfield character in The Constant Nymph, a 1924 novel by Margaret Kennedy (a former student of Cheltenham). She was a Fellow of King's College London and received an honorary MA from