St Paul's Girls' School

St Paul's Girls' School
Address
Brook Green

London
,
W6 7BS

England
Information
TypePrivate day school
Established1904
FounderWorshipful Company of Mercers
Local authorityHammersmith and Fulham
Department for Education URN100366 Tables
Chairman of GovernorsSimon Wathen
High MistressSarah Fletcher[1]
GenderGirls[1]
Age10 to 19[1]
Enrolment808 As of 2023[1]
Capacity825 As of 2023[1]
Former pupilsOld Paulinas
Websitewww.spgs.org

St Paul's Girls' School is a private secondary school for girls in Hammersmith, London. It was started by the Worshipful Company of Mercers in 1904.

High Mistresses

The headmistress of St Paul's Girls' School is called the High Mistress.

  • Frances Ralph Grey (d.1935), High Mistress 1903–1927
  • Ethel Strudwick (1880–1954), High Mistress 1927–1948, daughter of the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Melhuish Strudwick
  • Margaret Osborn (1906–1985), High Mistress 1948–1963
  • Alison Munro (1914–2008), High Mistress 1964–1974[2]
  • Heather Brigstocke, Baroness Brigstocke (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 2006–2017
  • Sarah Fletcher, High Mistress 2017–present

Alumnae

Arts

  • Gillian Ayres – artist
  • Mischa Barton – actress
  • Nicola Beauman – publisher, founder of Persephone Books
  • Helen Binyon – artist
  • Lesley Blanch – author
  • Justin Blanco White – architect
  • Celia Brayfield – author
  • Sophie Hunter – theatre and opera director
  • Brigid Brophy – dramatist
  • Lucy Briers – actress
  • Margaret Calvert – graphic artist
  • Miranda Carter – biographer
  • Edie Campbell – model
  • Cecilia Chancellor – model
  • Joan Cross – singer
  • Emma Darwin – author
  • Monica Dickens – author
  • Suzi Digby – conductor and musician
  • Flora Fraser – author
  • Justine Frischmann – retired musician and artist
  • Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein) – artist
  • Francesca Gonshaw – actress
  • Imogen Holst – musician
  • Sarah Hobson – travel writer
  • Ursula Howells – actress
  • Celia Johnson – actress
  • Rachel Johnson – journalist and editor
  • Jane M. Joseph – musician and composer
  • Amy Key Clarke – poet and author
  • Marghanita Laski – author
  • Nicola LeFanu – composer
  • Amanda Levete – architect
  • Alice Lowe – actress/author
  • Jessica Mann – author
  • Yvonne Mitchell – actress/author
  • Emily Mortimer – actress
  • Lucy Moss - playwright/director
  • Santha Rama Rau – author
  • Joely Richardson – actress
  • Natasha Richardson – actress
  • Georgina Rylance – actress
  • Katherine Shonfield – architect
  • Dodie Smith – playwright
  • Catherine Storr – author
  • Imogen Stubbs – actress
  • Emma Tennant – author
  • Angela Thirkell – author
  • Mary Treadgold – author
  • Salley Vickers – author
  • Samantha Weinberg – author
  • Rachel Weisz – actress
  • Antonia White – author

Business

  • Isabel dos Santos – wealthiest woman in Africa as of 2020[3][4][5]
  • Grace Beverley – founder of Tala and Shreddy

Culinary arts

  • Thomasina Miers – chef and founder of Wahaca restaurant chain
  • Henrietta Lovell – founder of the Rare Tea Company

Education

Humanitarianism

  • Myrtle Solomon – pacifist and former chair War Resisters' International
  • Ruth Wyner – homeless charity director

Law

  • Sonia Proudman – High Court Judge

Journalism and media

  • Emily Buchanan – BBC World Affairs correspondent
  • Clemency Burton-Hill – broadcaster and author
  • Edie Campbell – model and socialite
  • Victoria Coren Mitchell – presenter, poker player[7]
  • Daisy Donovan – TV presenter
  • Stephanie Flanders – BBC Economics editor
  • Amelia Gentleman – journalist
  • Bridget Harrison – journalist
  • Bronwen Maddox – senior journalist at 'The Times' newspaper
  • Veronica Pedrosa – Al Jazeera English correspondent
  • Sophie Raworth – news reader
  • Susanna Reid – news presenter
  • Anne Scott-James – journalist and editor
  • Alexandra Shulman – editor-in-chief, Vogue 1992–2017[8]
  • Carol Thatcher – journalist
  • Erica Wagner – author, critic, and literary editor of The Times
  • Eirene White, Baroness White – journalist and Labour politician
  • Petronella Wyatt – journalist

Politics

  • Jane Bonham Carter – Liberal Democrat peer
  • Vicky Ford, Conservative MP and formerly MEP
  • Harriet Harman – Labour MP, former Acting Leader of the Labour Party, former Leader of the Opposition and former Cabinet minister[9]
  • Susan Kramer – former Liberal Democrat MP
  • Mavis Tate – Conservative MP and women's rights campaigner[10]
  • Anne-Marie Trevelyan, Conservative MP
  • Jo Valentine, Baroness Valentine – member of the British House of Lords
  • Eirene White, Baroness White – Labour Minister of State then life peer
  • Shirley Williams – former Labour Education Secretary and co-founder of the Social Democratic Party[11]

Science

  • Kate Bingham – venture capitalist
  • Ruth Bowden – anatomist
  • Caroline Deys – doctor
  • Rosalind Franklin – scientist, research led to discovery of the structure of DNA
  • Jean Ginsburg – physiologist, endocrinologist
  • Christine Hamill – mathematician
  • Kathleen Kenyon – archaeologist
  • Irene Manton – botanist
  • Sidnie Manton – entomologist
  • Onora O'Neill – philosopher
  • Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin – astronomer
  • Catherine Peckham – doctor and scientist
  • Joan Beauchamp Procter – zoologist, herpetologist

Sport

  • Kitty Godfree – tennis player
  • Lara Prior-Palmer – equestrian
  • Cecilia Robinson – cricket
  • Zoe de Toledo – rowing

Notable former staff

  • Margaret Cole – socialist politician, former Classics teacher
  • Gustav Holst – composer, pioneer of music education for girls
  • Nicola LeFanu – director of music during the 1970s
  • Clara Taylor – chemist and science teacher, 1913-1921

Controversy

The school was in the news in November 2017 because of allegations of sexual abuse that happened from the 1970s to the 1990s.[12] In November 2017, One teacher resigned vecause of the allegations.[13]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "St Paul's Girls' School". Get Information about Schools. Gov.UK. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  2. ↑ Janet Gough, 'Munro , Dame Alison (1914–2008)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Jan 2012; online edn, May 2012 accessed 31 Dec 2016
  3. ↑ "From Colonization to Kleptocracy: A history of Angola". International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). January 2020. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  4. ↑ Garside, Juliette; Burke, Jason (19 January 2020). "Isabel dos Santos: president's daughter who became Africa's richest woman". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  5. ↑ Burgis, Tom. "Lunch with the FT: Isabel dos Santos". The Financial Times. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  6. ↑ [1]
  7. ↑ "EPT10 Sanremo: Salute Victoria Coren Mitchell – the EPT's first two-time champion". Pokerstars.com. 21 April 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  8. ↑ Alexandra Shulman Archived 6 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine Vogue UK, 22 April 2008
  9. ↑ Harriet Harman: I dropped my cut-glass accent to fit in with Labour - Telegraph
  10. ↑ [2]
  11. ↑ "FindArticles.com – CBSi". Findarticles.com. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  12. ↑ Weale, Sally (14 November 2017). "St Paul's Girls' School in London at centre of sexual abuse claims". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
  13. ↑ Weale, Sally (23 November 2017). "Teacher at London girls' school resigns after claims of sexual abuse". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 December 2018.

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