Ladies College

The school intends to provide an education based upon religious principles which, preserving the modesty and gentleness of the female character, should so far cultivate a girl s intellectual powers as to fit her for the discharge of those responsible duties which devolve upon her as a wife, mother and friend, the natural companion and helpmate for man.29 

It was a school considered much above average for sound instruction our mistresses had taken pains to arrange various schemes of knowledge yet what miserable teaching we had in so many subjects history was learned by committing to memory little manuals rules of arithmetic were taught, but the principles were never explained.31 

In 1848, Beale, like Buss, attended Queen s College for Women where she excelled, being appointed their first mathematics tutor after her graduation. However, she became dissatisfied with the College and left to become Head Teacher at Casterton 

School, Cumbria. Her attempts to reform that school failed and she resigned within 1 year. During the next year, Beale wrote A Textbook of General History, and the success of this book contributed to her appointment as Principal of CLC. Here, at last, she was able to put her strong principles into action. 

The construction of science laboratories was one of Beale s priorities. This was accomplished as noted in a description of the school in a 1900 issue of Girl s Realm in the Science Department there is a laboratory for physics and two for chemistry. .. 32 while a new Science wing was added in 1904 that was designed by Millicent Taylor, the woman chemist who linked CLC and University College, Bristol (see Chap. 5).33 

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Clarke, A. K. (1953). A History of Cheltenham Ladies College. Faber Faber, London. 

February 1854). Governors Report. The Ladies College, Cheltenham. 

Taylor, M. (1905). The new science wing, The Ladies College, Cheltenham. School World 7 222. 

Millicent Taylor (P) [5] Lecturer, Chemistry, Ladies College, Cheltenham... 

St. Hilda s was opened in 1893, also as an Anglican College. The founder was Dorothea Beale of Cheltenham Ladies College (CLC) fame (see Chap. 1), who chose the name in recognition of the 7th-century St. Hilda of Whitby, head of the most important place of learning of its time. There were close ties between the institutions, with CLC having representatives on the St. Hilda s Council until 1955, and, up to 1962, about 10% of all students ever at St. Hilda s were Cheltonians.59... 

Rich completed an Honours in Natural Science (Chemistry) in 1887, becoming a steamboat lady in 1904 to collect a degree from the University of Dublin. In the meantime, she had held posts as Science Mistress at Howell s School, Llandaff(1887-1888) Ladies College, Grantham (1889-1892) and Roedean School (1892-1905). Then, in 1906, she was appointed as a Principal at Granville School, Leicester. In 1922, she moved back into academia as Research Assistant to the Professor of Botany, Queen Mary College, London, a position that she held until her death in 1939. 

Slater was invited to work with J. J. Thomson57 at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, where she studied the decay products of thorium from 1903 to 1905. That year, she accepted a position as Science Teacher at KEVI, staying there until 1909, when she took up an offer of Science Teacher at Cheltenham Ladies College. In 1913, she returned to Newnham, this time as Assistant Lecturer in Physics and Chemistry, being promoted to Lecturer in 1914. 

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