St Paul's Girls' School

St Paul's Girls' School
St Paul's Girls' School
Address
	Brook Green; London, W6 7BS; England
Information
Type	Private day school
Established	1904
Founder	Worshipful Company of Mercers
Local authority	Hammersmith and Fulham
Department for Education URN	100366 Tables
Chairman of Governors	Simon Wathen
High Mistress	Sarah Fletcher
Gender	Girls
Age	10 to 19
Enrolment	808 As of 2023
Capacity	825 As of 2023
Former pupils	Old Paulinas
Website	www.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

Eleanora Carus-Wilson – economic historian
Sheila Forbes – former principal, St Hilda's College, Oxford
Henrietta Harrison – professor of Modern Chinese Studies, University of Oxford
Jessica Rawson – warden, Merton College, Oxford
Barbara Reynolds – scholar^[6]
Joan Robinson – economist

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

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 "St Paul's Girls' School". Get Information about Schools. Gov.UK. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
↑ 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
↑ "From Colonization to Kleptocracy: A history of Angola". International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). January 2020. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
↑ 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.
↑ Burgis, Tom. "Lunch with the FT: Isabel dos Santos". The Financial Times. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
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↑ "EPT10 Sanremo: Salute Victoria Coren Mitchell – the EPT's first two-time champion". Pokerstars.com. 21 April 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
↑ Alexandra Shulman Archived 6 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine Vogue UK, 22 April 2008
↑ Harriet Harman: I dropped my cut-glass accent to fit in with Labour - Telegraph
↑ [2]^{[permanent dead link]}
↑ "FindArticles.com – CBSi". Findarticles.com. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
↑ Weale, Sally (14 November 2017). "St Paul's Girls' School in London at centre of sexual abuse claims". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
↑ Weale, Sally (23 November 2017). "Teacher at London girls' school resigns after claims of sexual abuse". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 December 2018.

Other websites

Official School Website
ISI Inspection Reports
Profile on the ISC website
Profile at The Good Schools Guide
Profile Archived 2024-01-28 at the Wayback Machine at Tatler Schools Guide

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[GIAS-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

[ICIJJanuary2020-3] "From Colonization to Kleptocracy: A history of Angola". International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). January 2020. Retrieved 27 January 2020.

[Guardian-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.

[FT_2013-5] Burgis, Tom. "Lunch with the FT: Isabel dos Santos". The Financial Times. Retrieved 19 February 2021.

[6] [1]^{[permanent dead link]}

[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]^{[permanent dead link]}

[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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