North London Collegiate School
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North London Collegiate School is a selective independent day school for girls from the ages of 4 to 18. It was founded by pioneering girls's educator Frances Mary Buss in 1850, and is one of the oldest girls' schools in the United Kingdom.
North London Collegiate is the most academically successful school in England, having been placed in the top five in the Daily Telegraph exam league tables every year for over a decade. The first year that it offered the International Baccalaureate it had the highest average mark in the country and five of its girls were among only ninety students worldwide to score the maximum possible IB score of 45 marks.
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[edit] Headmistresses and dates of headship
- Frances Mary Buss (1850 – December 1894)
- Sophie Bryant (1895 – 1918)
- Isabella Drummond (1918 – 1940, previously Head of Camden School)
- Eileen Harold (1941 – 1944)
- Dame Kitty Anderson (1944 – 1965)
- Madeline McLauchlan (1965 – December 1985, previously at Henrietta Barnett School)
- Joan Clanchy (1986 – 1997)
- Bernice McCabe (1997 - present)
[edit] Noted alumnae
- Helen Gardner (academic/writer)[1]
- Stella Gibbons (novelist)
- Molly Hughes(novelist)
- Stevie Smith (poet)[1]
- Gillian Cross (children's writer)[2]
- Gillian Milton (ugly duckling actress)[2]
- Marie Stopes (medical pioneer - birth control)[1]
- Lilian Lindsay (first woman dentist - qualified 1897)[1][2]
- Edith How-Martyn (feminist activist)[1]
- Myfanwy Piper (art critic, librettist)[1]
- Esther Rantzen (presenter)[2]
- Eleanor Bron (actress)[2]
- Jane March (actress)
- Jacky Fleming (cartoonist)[2]
- Jan Marsh (expert on pre-Raphaelites)[2]
- Lorna Fitzpatrick (Labour Mayoress of Harrow 1996-97)[2]
- Natasha Walter (writer)[2]
- Alice Beer (TV presenter)[2]
- Anna Wintour (fashion journalist; editor of Vogue. Non-graduate)[2]
- Rachel Weisz (actress), later expelled
- Barbara Amiel (journalist)[2]
- Anna Madeley (actress)
- Dame Evelyn Sharp(Civil servant)
- Clara Collet(Civil Servant)
- Maisie Gay(music hall artist)
- Jessie Millward(music hall artist)
- Noreena Hertz(academic)
- Judith Weir(composer)
- Alison Britton(ceramicist)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f North London Collegiate School - Famous ONLs
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l isbi entry for North London Collegiate School
