Person

Harriet Morant Jones

1833-1917 Harriet Morant Jones was born in Guernsey on 2 January 1833. Nothing is known of her early life except she possibly ran her own school in Guernsey. In 1873, she was appointed the first head mistress of Notting Hill High School in 1873, which was the second school opened by the Girls' Public Day School Company. Initially she taught nearly all the girls at the school and by the end of 1874 had sent 6 of her pupils in for the Cambridge senior local examinations. She concentrated upon academic education for the girls and was against non-academic subject such as needlework. In 1887 she was one of the people involved in a memorial sent to the University of Cambridge asking for the admission of women for degrees. In 1894, of behalf of the Association of Head Mistresses of Endowed and Proprietary Schools, she gave evidence to the Bryce commission on secondary education. She was also president of the Association and a member of the Council of the Maria Grey Training College. She retired in 1900 and died on 20 October 1917. Head mistress GB/366/481 Jane E. Sayers, ‘Jones, Harriet Morant (1833–1917)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/51749, accessed 19 June 2008] GDS/15/3/3 Deposited/Corporate/GDS/Heads/MorantJones 19/06/2008 Mkklibyz 08/04/2009 Mkklibyz Jones; Harriet Morant (1833-1917); Head mistress Jones Harriet Morant Female GB/366/475 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes 080225e3-5d10-46c9-916b-6adb7dbc3b4e