St Paul's Girls' School
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St Paul's Girls' School is a senior independent school
, located in Brook Green
, Hammersmith
, in West London
, England
.
s of the Dean Colet Foundation (founded by John Colet
), which had run St Paul's School for boys since the sixteenth century. The buildings for the school were designed by the architect Gerald Horsley, the son of the painter John Callcott Horsley
and one of the founder members of the Art Workers Guild
.
The school has had several distinguished directors of music, most notably Gustav Holst
(1905–34) and Herbert Howells
(1936–62). Holst composed his St Paul's
and Brook Green
suites for the pupils at the school. Holst also composed what is arguably his most well known work, 'The Planets' while teaching at St Paul's.
was Director of Music at the school during the period he composed his orchestral suite, The Planets
; and John Gardner
followed in his footsteps, writing many memorable pieces for the School, including his popular Christmas carols Tomorrow Shall be My Dancing Day and The Holly and the Ivy. Students progress to university
after their secondary education
, with 40–45% gaining entrance to the Oxbridge
Colleges. Former and current pupils are known as Paulinas. There is no uniform (except for sports uniform for the younger years), which encourages individuality within the school community. According to its website, St Paul's is known for its academic excellence and the girls' confidence and freedom throughout the school. According to the Good Schools Guide, "For the bright, talented, motivated and confident girl, [it is an] exhilarating start to the big adventure." In 2007, the school gained the highest-ever recorded GCSE results, with 87.1% gaining A* grades, and 99.1% of entries gaining A* or A.
, Godolphin and Latymer (another independent girls' school situated in Hammersmith
), and Latymer Upper School
.
The main school creative writing competition, the Monica Dickens, runs once a year, although there are others, and the school is also represented at national creative writing competitions: in the past two years alone Paulinas have won or been placed in the Foyle Young Poet of the Year competition, the BBC Wildlife Poet of the Year competition, the Christopher Tower Poetry Competition with Corpus Christi, the Martin Wills (three Paulinas were shortlisted in the 2009 competition), the Artsrichmond Young Writers Festival. Every year a delegation attends the Arvon courses, entry into which is competitive.
, is where most school productions are staged, with a play in the autumn term and a musical in the summer term most years. The drama studio is another, smaller, space where many of the other productions are staged. Both are black box. Productions have, in the past, been performed elsewhere in the school, including the Great Hall and the Concourse.
Students are able to put on 'studio productions' where they direct, produce, tech and act in a play of their choosing. This is open to the whole school.
The Colet Play is put on annually by the girls of the Seventh (Year 12). Voted for from a pool of proposals, the production is undertaken independently of the school, though its premises are used. In recent years several productions have been performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, often with critical success.
The VIIIth play is an annual undertaking for the Eighth (year 13), where a member of staff not in the drama department directs a play of their choice. Recent VIIIth plays have included 'The Love of the Nightingale' and 'The Changeling'.
The leavers' revue is another annual tradition, written and performed by the outgoing Eighth (Year 13) to the rest of the school. In recent years the revue has undergone numerous name changes; from the Eighth Revue to the Eighth Event, the Eighth Charity Event, and, in 2009, the Eighth Burlesque. Advertisement for the VIIIth Revue has in recent years borne the slogan 'It's Coming'.
Drama club runs on a weekly basis for students in the MIVth (year 7) and the UIVth (year 8) where they devise short performances, and junior and senior improv club also run. Commedia dell'Arte troupe has been running for several years. The Theatre Society runs trips to theatre events around London, chosen by the Theatre Society Committee made up of senior girls. Several trips also run throughout the year to theatres to support learning in other subjects such as history, English, classics and modern foreign languages.
Bursaries fund up to 100 per cent of tuition fees on a sliding scale depending on annual family income, assets and other information, plus exam entry fees and a grant towards textbooks. Holders of 100 per cent bursaries entering in Y12 also receive an extra package to cover the cost of sports uniforms and equipment, travel (where not covered by free London bus travel for under 18s), an annual contribution towards school visits and free tuition in one musical instrument.
Year 12: The school may also award two music scholarships to current students and two more to new joiners (worth £250 a year plus free tuition in two instruments), and two art scholarships (worth £250 a year) to internal and external candidates. The Nora Day music scholarship (worth up to 50% of school fees plus free tuition in two instruments) is awarded every other year to a new joiner who shows exceptional music potential. St Paul's also awards scholarships worth £250 a year for academic distinction in the 'Senior Scholarship', a dissertation written by students in Y12 during the Summer holiday following their AS exams.
Independent school
An independent school is a school that is independent in its finances and governance; it is not dependent upon national or local government for financing its operations, nor reliant on taxpayer contributions, and is instead funded by a combination of tuition charges, gifts, and in some cases the...
, located in Brook Green
Brook Green
Brook Green is an affluent London neighbourhood in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It is located approx west of Charing Cross. It is bordered by Kensington, Shepherd's Bush, Hammersmith, Holland Park and Brackenbury Village....
, Hammersmith
Hammersmith
Hammersmith is an urban centre in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in west London, England, in the United Kingdom, approximately five miles west of Charing Cross on the north bank of the River Thames...
, in West London
West (London sub region)
The West is a sub-region of the London Plan corresponding to the London Boroughs of Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon and Hounslow. The sub region was established in 2004 and was adjusted in 2008 to include Kensington and Chelsea. The west has a population of 1.6 million and...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
.
History
In 1904 a new day school for girls was established by the trusteeTrustee
Trustee is a legal term which, in its broadest sense, can refer to any person who holds property, authority, or a position of trust or responsibility for the benefit of another...
s of the Dean Colet Foundation (founded by John Colet
John Colet
John Colet was an English churchman and educational pioneer.Colet was an English scholar, Renaissance humanist, theologian, and Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. Colet wanted people to see the scripture as their guide through life. Furthermore, he wanted to restore theology and rejuvenate...
), which had run St Paul's School for boys since the sixteenth century. The buildings for the school were designed by the architect Gerald Horsley, the son of the painter John Callcott Horsley
John Callcott Horsley
John Callcott Horsley RA , was an English Academic painter of genre and historical scenes, illustrator, and designer of the first Christmas card. He was a member of the artist's colony in Cranbrook.-Life:...
and one of the founder members of the Art Workers Guild
Art Workers Guild
The Art Workers Guild or Art-Workers' Guild is an organisation established in 1884 by a group of British architects associated with the ideas of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement. The guild promoted the 'unity of all the arts', denying the distinction between fine and applied art...
.
The school has had several distinguished directors of music, most notably Gustav Holst
Gustav Holst
Gustav Theodore Holst was an English composer. He is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets....
(1905–34) and Herbert Howells
Herbert Howells
Herbert Norman Howells CH was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music.-Life:...
(1936–62). Holst composed his St Paul's
St Paul's Suite
St Paul's Suite originally titled Suite in C, is a composition for string orchestra by the English composer Gustav Holst. It was written in 1912, but due to revisions wasn't published until 1922. It is named after the St Paul's Girls' School in the United Kingdom, where Holst was Director of Music...
and Brook Green
Brook Green Suite
Gustav Holst's Brook Green Suite was written in 1933 for St Paul's Girls' School junior orchestra.The movements are:#Prelude#Air#Dance...
suites for the pupils at the school. Holst also composed what is arguably his most well known work, 'The Planets' while teaching at St Paul's.
Present day
Students range from 11–18 years old, with approximately 720 pupils in total. The school emphasizes both academic and extracurricular activities. It has a strong musical tradition: Gustav HolstGustav Holst
Gustav Theodore Holst was an English composer. He is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets....
was Director of Music at the school during the period he composed his orchestral suite, The Planets
The Planets
The Planets, Op. 32, is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1916. Each movement of the suite is named after a planet of the Solar System and its corresponding astrological character as defined by Holst...
; and John Gardner
John Gardner (composer)
John Linton Gardner, CBE is an English composer of classical music.-Biography:Gardner was born in Manchester, England and brought up in Ilfracombe, North Devon. His father Alfred Linton Gardner was a local GP and amateur composer who was killed in action in the last months of the First World War....
followed in his footsteps, writing many memorable pieces for the School, including his popular Christmas carols Tomorrow Shall be My Dancing Day and The Holly and the Ivy. Students progress to university
University
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
after their secondary education
Secondary education
Secondary education is the stage of education following primary education. Secondary education includes the final stage of compulsory education and in many countries it is entirely compulsory. The next stage of education is usually college or university...
, with 40–45% gaining entrance to the Oxbridge
Oxbridge
Oxbridge is a portmanteau of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge in England, and the term is now used to refer to them collectively, often with implications of perceived superior social status...
Colleges. Former and current pupils are known as Paulinas. There is no uniform (except for sports uniform for the younger years), which encourages individuality within the school community. According to its website, St Paul's is known for its academic excellence and the girls' confidence and freedom throughout the school. According to the Good Schools Guide, "For the bright, talented, motivated and confident girl, [it is an] exhilarating start to the big adventure." In 2007, the school gained the highest-ever recorded GCSE results, with 87.1% gaining A* grades, and 99.1% of entries gaining A* or A.
Sport
The school has several sports fields, halls and tennis courts at its disposal. Generally regarded as the schools' main sport, lacrosse remains a focus, with teams regularly touring. Netball is also popular, as is rowing. In sport, the school is a traditional rival of Lady Eleanor HollesLady Eleanor Holles School
The Lady Eleanor Holles School is an independent school for girls in Hampton, London, England. The school was founded in 1711.-Admissions:...
, Godolphin and Latymer (another independent girls' school situated in Hammersmith
Hammersmith
Hammersmith is an urban centre in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in west London, England, in the United Kingdom, approximately five miles west of Charing Cross on the north bank of the River Thames...
), and Latymer Upper School
Latymer Upper School
Latymer Upper School, founded by Edward Latymer in 1624, is a selective independent school in Hammersmith, West London, England, lying between King Street and the Thames. It is a day school for 1,130 pupils – boys and girls aged 11–18; there is also the Latymer Preparatory School for boys and girls...
.
Writing
The school has numerous pupil-run magazines and newspapers: these include The Marble, M2, Marmor (the classics magazine, Latin for "marble"), and Words, a creative writing magazine.The main school creative writing competition, the Monica Dickens, runs once a year, although there are others, and the school is also represented at national creative writing competitions: in the past two years alone Paulinas have won or been placed in the Foyle Young Poet of the Year competition, the BBC Wildlife Poet of the Year competition, the Christopher Tower Poetry Competition with Corpus Christi, the Martin Wills (three Paulinas were shortlisted in the 2009 competition), the Artsrichmond Young Writers Festival. Every year a delegation attends the Arvon courses, entry into which is competitive.
Drama
The school's main theatre, named after alumna Celia JohnsonCelia Johnson
Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson DBE was an English actress.She began her stage acting career in 1928, and subsequently achieved success in West End and Broadway productions. She also appeared in several films, including the romantic drama Brief Encounter , for which she received a nomination for the...
, is where most school productions are staged, with a play in the autumn term and a musical in the summer term most years. The drama studio is another, smaller, space where many of the other productions are staged. Both are black box. Productions have, in the past, been performed elsewhere in the school, including the Great Hall and the Concourse.
Students are able to put on 'studio productions' where they direct, produce, tech and act in a play of their choosing. This is open to the whole school.
The Colet Play is put on annually by the girls of the Seventh (Year 12). Voted for from a pool of proposals, the production is undertaken independently of the school, though its premises are used. In recent years several productions have been performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, often with critical success.
The VIIIth play is an annual undertaking for the Eighth (year 13), where a member of staff not in the drama department directs a play of their choice. Recent VIIIth plays have included 'The Love of the Nightingale' and 'The Changeling'.
The leavers' revue is another annual tradition, written and performed by the outgoing Eighth (Year 13) to the rest of the school. In recent years the revue has undergone numerous name changes; from the Eighth Revue to the Eighth Event, the Eighth Charity Event, and, in 2009, the Eighth Burlesque. Advertisement for the VIIIth Revue has in recent years borne the slogan 'It's Coming'.
Drama club runs on a weekly basis for students in the MIVth (year 7) and the UIVth (year 8) where they devise short performances, and junior and senior improv club also run. Commedia dell'Arte troupe has been running for several years. The Theatre Society runs trips to theatre events around London, chosen by the Theatre Society Committee made up of senior girls. Several trips also run throughout the year to theatres to support learning in other subjects such as history, English, classics and modern foreign languages.
Fees
For students joining in Y7,8,9 and 10, the fee per term is £5,842, including lunch and personal accident insurance but excluding textbooks and other extras. For students joining in Y12, the termly fee including lunch and insurance is £6,280. Music lessons, extra sports coaching and life drawing classes are charged extra and, thus, the costs for the vast majority of pupils amount to approximately £20,000 a year. In addition, £200 pounds per annum are awarded toward potential academic school trips, although due to the large array of opportunities on offer, many Paulinas have trip fees exceeding £3,000 per year. For example, a recent music tour of the United States cost over £1,000. Trips are, however, usually funded by the school for pupils on scholarships or bursaries.Bursaries
The school awards up to ten means-tested bursaries to students who join in Y7 (two of which are funded by HSBC), and up to five more bursaries for students arriving in Y12. For candidates who join in Y12, there is also the Ogden Trust science award for a UK citizen currently at a non-independent school who wants to study both physics and maths at A level.Bursaries fund up to 100 per cent of tuition fees on a sliding scale depending on annual family income, assets and other information, plus exam entry fees and a grant towards textbooks. Holders of 100 per cent bursaries entering in Y12 also receive an extra package to cover the cost of sports uniforms and equipment, travel (where not covered by free London bus travel for under 18s), an annual contribution towards school visits and free tuition in one musical instrument.
Scholarships
Year 7: The school awards up to four academic scholarships and two music scholarships to 11+ entrants (worth £100 a year; the music scholarship also includes free tuition in one instrument).Year 12: The school may also award two music scholarships to current students and two more to new joiners (worth £250 a year plus free tuition in two instruments), and two art scholarships (worth £250 a year) to internal and external candidates. The Nora Day music scholarship (worth up to 50% of school fees plus free tuition in two instruments) is awarded every other year to a new joiner who shows exceptional music potential. St Paul's also awards scholarships worth £250 a year for academic distinction in the 'Senior Scholarship', a dissertation written by students in Y12 during the Summer holiday following their AS exams.
High Mistresses of St Paul's Girls' School
The headmistress of St Paul's Girls School is known as the High Mistress.- Frances Ralph Grey OBE (d.1935), High Mistress 1903–1927
- Ethel Strudwick CBE (1880–1954), High Mistress 1927–1948, daughter of the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Melhuish StrudwickJohn Melhuish StrudwickJohn Melhuish Strudwick , was a Victorian Pre-Raphaelite painter, the son of William Strudwick and Sarah Melhuish .John Strudwick attended St Saviour's Grammar School in Southwark...
- Margaret Osborn (1906–1985), High Mistress 1948–1963
- Dame Alison Munro DBE (1914 – September 9, 2008), High Mistress 1964–1974
- Lady BrigstockeHeather Brigstocke, Baroness BrigstockeHeather Brigstocke, Baroness Brigstocke, CBE was a British schoolteacher, academic and Conservative Life Peer....
CBE (Heather Renwick Brigstocke, created Baroness Brigstocke 1990) (1929–2004), High Mistress 1974–1989 - Helen Elizabeth Webber Williams (born 1938), High Mistress 1989–1992
- Janet Gough (born 1940), High Mistress 1993–1998
- Elizabeth Mary Diggory (1945–2007), High Mistress 1998–2006
- Clarissa Mary Farr (born 1958), High Mistress 2006–
Notable Old Paulinas
Alumnae of the school, known as Old Paulinas, include:The arts
- Nicola Beauman – publisher, founder of Persephone Books
- Lesley BlanchLesley BlanchLesley Blanch, MBE, FRSL was an English writer, fashion editor and writer of history....
– writer and author of The Wilder Shores of Love - Celia BrayfieldCelia BrayfieldCelia Brayfield is an English author, journalist and cultural commentator. She was born in London in 1945.-Career:Following her childhood role model, Robert Louis Stevenson, Celia decided to begin her writing career as a journalist and joined the Sixties...
– novelist - Miranda CarterMiranda CarterMiranda Carter is a British writer and biographer. She was educated at St Paul's Girls School and Exeter College, Oxford.Her first book was a biography of the art historian and spy Anthony Blunt, entitled Anthony Blunt: His Lives...
– biographer - Brigid BrophyBrigid BrophyBrigid Antonia Brophy, Lady Levey was an English writer. In the Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Novelists since 1960, S. J...
– dramatist - Joan CrossJoan CrossJoan Cross was an English soprano, closely associated with the operas of Benjamin Britten. She also sang in the Italian and German operatic repertoires. She later became a musical administrator, taking on the direction of the Sadler's Wells Opera Company.-Career:Cross was born in London...
– singer - Emma DarwinEmma Darwin (novelist)Emma L. Darwin is an English novelist who is the author of the historical fiction novels The Mathematics of Love and A Secret Alchemy . She is the great-great-granddaughter of Charles and Emma Darwin.-Biography:...
– novelist - Monica DickensMonica DickensMonica Enid Dickens, MBE was an English writer, the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens.-Biography:...
– novelist - Flora FraserFlora Fraser (writer)Flora Fraser Soros is an English writer of historical biographies.-Family:She is the daughter of historian and historical biographer Lady Antonia Fraser and the late Sir Hugh Fraser, a British Conservative politician. Her stepfather was the playwright Harold Pinter, the 2005 Nobel Laureate in...
– writer - Justine FrischmannJustine FrischmannJustine Elinor Frischmann is an English singer and guitarist, best known for being the lead singer of the now defunct band Elastica...
– musician - Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein)Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein)Gluck was a British painter.-Biography:Gluck was born into a wealthy Jewish family, the child of Joseph Gluckstein, whose brothers Isidore and Montague had founded J. Lyons and Co., a British coffee house and catering empire. Gluck's American-born mother, Francesca Halle, was an opera singer...
– artist - Imogen HolstImogen HolstImogen Clare Holst, CBE was a British composer and conductor, and sole child of composer Gustav Holst.Imogen Holst was brought up in west London and educated at St Paul's Girls' School, where her father was director of music...
– musician - Ursula HowellsUrsula HowellsUrsula Howells was an English actress whose elegant presence kept her much in demand for roles in film and television....
– actress - Celia JohnsonCelia JohnsonDame Celia Elizabeth Johnson DBE was an English actress.She began her stage acting career in 1928, and subsequently achieved success in West End and Broadway productions. She also appeared in several films, including the romantic drama Brief Encounter , for which she received a nomination for the...
– actress - Rachel JohnsonRachel JohnsonRachel Johnson is an English editor, journalist and author based in London.Johnson is the daughter of former Conservative MEP Stanley Johnson and artist Charlotte Johnson Wahl , the daughter of Sir James Fawcett, a prominent barrister and president of the European Commission of Human Rights...
– writer - Jane M. JosephJane M. JosephJane Marian Joseph was an English composer. She also used the pseudonym "James M. Joseph".-Biography:Jane Joseph was born in Notting Hill, West London, into a Jewish family. She learned double bass as a child, and also played piano. She graduated from St...
– musician and composer - Amy Key Clarke – mystical poet and author
- Marghanita LaskiMarghanita LaskiMarghanita Laski was an English journalist, radio panellist and novelist: she also wrote literary biography, plays and short stories.- Personal life :...
– writer - Nicola LeFanuNicola LeFanuNicola LeFanu is a British composer, academic, lecturer and director.-Life:Nicola LeFanu was born in England to William LeFanu and Elizabeth Maconchy . She studied at St Hilda's College, Oxford, before taking up a Harkness Fellowship at Harvard. In 1972 she won the Mendelssohn Scholarship...
– composer - Alice LoweAlice LoweAlice Lowe is an English actress and writer mainly in comedy, from the English Midlands.Lowe attended a comprehensive school and graduated from Cambridge University. She began her career co-devising and performing in surreal experimental theatre shows such as City Haunts, Snowbound and Progress In...
– actress/writer - Jessica MannJessica MannJessica Mann is a British writer. As a novelist she specialises in the mystery and suspense genres, having published 20 crime novels since 1971.She has also written several non-fiction books, including Out Of Harm's Way, the story of the overseas evacuation of children during WW2.Mann was educated...
- writer - Emily MortimerEmily MortimerEmily Kathleen A. Mortimer is an English actress. She began performing on stage, and has since appeared in several film and television roles, including Scream 3, Match Point, Lars and the Real Girl, and Shutter Island....
– actress - Natasha RichardsonNatasha RichardsonNatasha Jane Richardson was an English actress of stage and screen. A member of the Redgrave family, she was the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director/producer Tony Richardson and the granddaughter of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson...
– actress - Joely RichardsonJoely RichardsonJoely Kim Richardson is an English actress, most known recently for her role as Queen Catherine Parr in the Showtime television show The Tudors and Julia McNamara in the television drama Nip/Tuck...
– actress - Jennifer SaundersJennifer SaundersJennifer Jane Saunders is an English comedienne, screenwriter, singer and actress. She has won two BAFTAs, an International Emmy Award, a British Comedy Award, a Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival Award, two Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards, and a Peoples Choice Award.She first came into...
– actress - Georgina RylanceGeorgina RylanceGeorgina Elizabeth Rylance , English actress, best known for Dinotopia.-Early life:Rylance is the daughter of Judge John Rylance QC, a circuit judge....
– actress - Dodie SmithDodie SmithDorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith was an English novelist and playwright. Smith is best known for her novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians. Her other works include I Capture the Castle and The Starlight Barking....
– playwright - Catherine StorrCatherine StorrCatherine Storr was an English children's writer, best known for her novel Marianne Dreams and for a series of books about a wolf ineptly pursuing a young girl, beginning with Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf.-Life:She was born in Kensington, London, one of three children of a barrister, Arthur...
– children's writer - Imogen StubbsImogen StubbsImogen Stubbs, Lady Nunn is an English actress and playwright.-Early life:Imogen Stubbs was born in Northumberland, lived briefly in Portsmouth, where her father was a naval officer, and then moved with her parents to London, where they lived on an elderly river barge on the Thames...
– actress - Emma TennantEmma TennantEmma Christina Tennant FRSL is a British novelist and editor. She is known for a postmodern approach to her fiction, which is often imbued with fantasy or magic. Several of her novels give a feminist or dreamlike twist to classic stories, such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr....
– novelist - Angela ThirkellAngela ThirkellAngela Margaret Thirkell , was an English and Australian novelist. She also published one novel, Trooper to Southern Cross, under the pseudonym Leslie Parker.-Early life:...
– novelist - Salley VickersSalley VickersSalley Vickers is an English novelist whose works include the word-of-mouth bestseller Miss Garnet's Angel, Mr. Golightly's Holiday, The Other Side of You and Where Three Roads Meet, a retelling of the Oedipus myth to Sigmund Freud in the last months of his life...
- writer - Samantha WeinbergSamantha WeinbergSamantha Fletcher is a British Green politician, and under her maiden name of Samantha Weinberg, a novelist, journalist and travel writer. Educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Trinity College, Cambridge, she is the author of books such as A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth and...
– writer - Rachel WeiszRachel WeiszRachel Hannah Weisz born 7 March 1970)is an English-American film and theatre actress and former fashion model. She started her acting career at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she co-founded the theatrical group Cambridge Talking Tongues...
– actress - Antonia WhiteAntonia WhiteAntonia White was a British writer.-Early life:White was born as Eirine Botting to parents Cecil and Christine Botting. She later took her mother's maiden name, White. Her father taught Greek and Latin at St. Paul’s School...
– novelist - Kit WhitfieldKit WhitfieldKit Whitfield is an English novelist. Her first novel, titled Bareback in the UK and Benighted in the US, was published by Random House in August 2006. It has subsequently been purchased by Warner Brothers for an undisclosed six-figure sum, and is currently being adapted as a film called Benighted...
– novelist - Thomasina MiersThomasina MiersThomasina "Tommi" Miers is an English cook, writer and television presenter. She is married to Mark Williams.Born in Cheltenham, she studied at St Paul's Girls' School and Ballymaloe Cookery School and worked as a freelance cook and writer, with influences from time spent in Mexico.In 2005 she won...
– cook, food writer, co-owner of Wahaca Restaurants - Edie CampbellEdie Campbell- Career :Edie started modelling after she appeared in a Vogue feature by Mario Testino, in a story about up and coming young Londoners. Mario Testino then went on to use her in a Burberry campaign alongside Kate Moss. Campbell is now represented by VIVA London and VIVA Paris.Campbell has been...
- model
Education
- Sheila ForbesSheila ForbesSheila Forbes, CBE , is a British educator, consultant and manager. She became Principal of St Hilda%27s College%2C Oxford in August 2007....
– Principal, St. Hilda's College, Oxford - Jessica RawsonJessica RawsonJessica Rawson, DBE, FBA is an English art historian, curator and academic administrator, specializing in Chinese art. After many years at the British Museum, she was Warden of Merton College, Oxford, from 1994 until her retirement in 2010...
– Warden, Merton College, OxfordMerton College, OxfordMerton College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the 1260s when Walter de Merton, chancellor to Henry III and later to Edward I, first drew up statutes for an independent academic community and established endowments to... - Barbara ReynoldsBarbara ReynoldsBarbara Reynolds is an English scholar, lexicographer and translator, wife of the philologist and translator Lewis Thorpe.-Early life:The daughter of Alfred Charles Reynolds, and the god-daughter of Dorothy L...
– scholar - Joan RobinsonJoan RobinsonJoan Violet Robinson FBA was a post-Keynesian economist who was well known for her knowledge of monetary economics and wide-ranging contributions to economic theory...
– economist
Journalism
- Emily BuchananEmily BuchananEmily Buchanan is a British television journalist. She is the BBC's World Affairs Correspondent, and was the presenter of Head to Head, BBC News 24’s debate programme.-Education:Buchanan was educated at St...
– BBC World Affairs correspondent - Daisy DonovanDaisy DonovanDaisy Donovan is an American-born British television presenter, actress and writer.-Early life:Donovan was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Her father was fashion photographer and film director Terence Donovan; her mother Diana Donovan, is chairwoman of the English National Ballet School...
– TV presenter - Stephanie FlandersStephanie FlandersStephanie Hope Flanders, born 5 August 1968, is a British broadcast journalist, and is currently the BBC economics editor.She is the daughter of British actor and comic singer Michael Flanders and Claudia Cockburn.-Early life:...
– BBC Economics editor - Sophie RaworthSophie RaworthSophie Jane Raworth is an English newsreader and journalist who works for British broadcaster the BBC. She is the main presenter of the BBC News at One, presenting Tuesday to Friday, and regularly appears on the BBC News at Six and occasionally on BBC News at Ten.-Early life:Born in Surrey to a...
– broadcaster - Susanna ReidSusanna ReidSusanna Reid is an English journalist and presenter, best known for presenting BBC Breakfast.-Early life:The youngest of three children, Reid was born in Croydon, London to an English father who worked as a management consultant, of Scottish ancestry, and an English mother who worked as a nurse...
– broadcaster - Anne Scott-JamesAnne Scott-JamesAnne Eleanor Scott-James, Lady Lancaster was an English journalist and author. She was one of Britain's first women career journalists, editors and columnists, and latterly author of a series of gardening books....
– jourmalist and editor - Alexandra ShulmanAlexandra ShulmanAlexandra Shulman, OBE , is the editor of the British edition of Vogue. She is one of the country's most oft-quoted voices on fashion trends. She took the helm of Vogue in 1992, presiding over a circulation increase to 200,000 and a higher profile for the publication...
– editor-in-chief, Vogue 1992–present - Carol ThatcherCarol ThatcherCarol Thatcher is a British journalist, author and media personality. She is the daughter of Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, a former British Prime Minister, and Sir Denis Thatcher, Bt....
– journalist - Erica WagnerErica WagnerErica Wagner is an American author and critic, living in London. She is the literary editor of The Times.-Biography:Erica Wagner was born in New York City in 1967. She grew up on the Upper West Side and went to the Brearley School...
, author, critic, and literary editor of The TimesThe TimesThe Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International... - Eirene White, Baroness White – journalist and Labour politician
- Petronella WyattPetronella WyattPetronella Wyatt , is a British journalist and author. She is the daughter of the former journalist and Labour politician, the late Woodrow Wyatt, and his fourth wife, the Hungarian Veronica Banszky Von Ambroz.-Biography:...
– journalist
Politics
- Jane Bonham Carter – Liberal DemocratLiberal DemocratsThe Liberal Democrats are a social liberal political party in the United Kingdom which supports constitutional and electoral reform, progressive taxation, wealth taxation, human rights laws, cultural liberalism, banking reform and civil liberties .The party was formed in 1988 by a merger of the...
peer - Harriet HarmanHarriet HarmanHarriet Ruth Harman QC is a British Labour Party politician, who is the Member of Parliament for Camberwell and Peckham, and was MP for the predecessorPeckham constituency from 1982 to 1997...
– LabourLabour Party (UK)The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
MPMember of ParliamentA Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and former Cabinet minister - Susan KramerSusan KramerSusan Veronica Kramer, Baroness Kramer is a British Liberal Democrat politician. She was Member of Parliament for Richmond Park from 2005 to 2010, having been an unsuccessful candidate in the London mayoral election in 2000....
– former Liberal Democrat MPMember of ParliamentA Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,... - Jo Valentine, Baroness ValentineJo Valentine, Baroness ValentineJosephine Clare Valentine, Baroness Valentine, known as Jo Valentine is a member of the British House of Lords.Valentine was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and St Hugh's College, Oxford, where she read Maths and Philosophy....
– member of the British House of Lords - Mavis TateMavis TateMavis Constance Tate , was a British Conservative politician and campaigner for British women's rights.-Life:...
– Conservative MPMember of ParliamentA Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
and women's rights campaigner - Shirley Williams – former Labour Education SecretaryEducation SecretaryEducation Secretary may refer to:* Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, Scotland* Secretary for Education * Secretary of Public Education, Mexico* Secretary of State for Education, United Kingdom...
and co-founder of the Social Democratic PartySocial Democratic Party (UK)The Social Democratic Party was a political party in the United Kingdom that was created on 26 March 1981 and existed until 1988. It was founded by four senior Labour Party 'moderates', dubbed the 'Gang of Four': Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams...
Science
- Rosalind FranklinRosalind FranklinRosalind Elsie Franklin was a British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer who made critical contributions to the understanding of the fine molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal and graphite...
– scientist, discoverer of DNA - Christine HamillChristine HamillChristine Mary Hamill was an English mathematician who specialized in group theory and finite geometry. After receiving her Ph.D...
– mathematician - Kathleen KenyonKathleen KenyonDame Kathleen Mary Kenyon , was a leading archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. She is best known for her excavations in Jericho in 1952-1958.-Early life:...
– archaeologist - Irene MantonIrene MantonIrene Manton, FRS was a British botanist. She was noted for study of ferns, algae and bums.-Biography:...
, FRS – botanist - Sidnie MantonSidnie MantonSidnie Milana Manton, FRS was a British entomologist.-Early life:Sidnie Milana Manton was born in Kensington, London the daughter of a dentist. Her sister was Irene Manton , a botanist, She was educated in Kensington and at St...
, FRS – entomologist - Onora O'Neill – philosopher
- Cecilia Payne-GaposchkinCecilia Payne-Gaposchkin-Further reading:*Rubin, Vera , "Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin" in OUT OF THE SHADOWS: Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics, Nina Byers and Gary Williams, ed., Cambridge University Press ....
– astronomer
External links
- St Paul's Girls' School website
- St Paul's Girls' School, London Good Schools Guide