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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 ]
Thomson's stained glass windows can be seen at the Church of St John the Divine, Brooklands in Cheshire, and at Cheltenham Ladies’ College. [3] The Britomart Windows at Cheltenham Ladies’ College are based upon six pictures taken from Edmund Spenser’s allegory of The Faerie Queene. They were produced by Heaton, Butler and Bayne.
Laurie was born in 1856 in the British West Indies, the daughter of a clergyman in Barbados. She was educated at the Clergy Daughters' School in Bristol, and after some time in Barbados, the Maria Grey Training College. In 1880, she joined the staff of the Cheltenham Ladies College, where she wrote her first textbook on botany. It went on to be ...
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.
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
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Treggiari was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College, where she studied Latin from eleven and Greek from twelve. [3] She studied Literae Humaniores at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, from 1958 to 1962, for which she was awarded a first, remaining for a further two years and writing a thesis supervised by P.A. Brunt, on Roman freedmen during the late Republic (published by the Clarendon Press, 1969).