King Edward VI High School for Girls

The first Head was Edith Elizabeth Maria Creak. By the time of her arrival at KEVI at age 27, she was already a veteran, 

Creak hired three dedicated and enthusiastic science staff, all Newnham graduates Lizzie Davison, Alice Celia Slater, and Josephine Bingham. Another School biographer, Rachel Waterhouse, commented  

Miss Davison also used to take the Xllth Class, little girls of 8 to 10, in the principal gases. She did all the demonstrations, which according to modern ideas was bad, writes a pupil, but she made it so interesting that I used to be impelled to tell my small brother all about it each week, and what she taught us sticks. 39 

Some KEVI students obtained permission to attend the men s classes of practical physiology at Mason College (later the University of Birmingham, see Chap. 5). Another former student commented  

This meant our entering the sacred medical department of the College, and one of the demonstrators, who has since become 

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Vardy, W. I. (1928). King Edward VI High School for Girls Birmingham 1883-1925. Ernest Benn, London. 

The first woman Student Member of the Institute of Chemistry was Rose Stem.19 Stem graduated in 1889 from King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham (KEVI). Like Lloyd, Stern worked towards a B.Sc. (London) from Mason College, completing... 

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