Queen's College is an independent school for girls aged 11-18 with an adjacent preparatory school for 4-11 year old girls in Westminster City, London. Founded in 1848 by the theologian and social reformer Frederick Denison Maurice, Professor of English Literature and History at King's College London, along with a customer committee, the College is the first institution in the world to provide academic qualifications to women. In 1853, it also became the first girls' school to be given the Royal Charter for the advancement of women's education. Since then, the patron of the College has become the queen of England; the current protector is Queen Elizabeth II.
Colleges have a clear liberal ethos based on the principles of F.D. Maurice. Through a non-competitive spirit and excessive regulatory avoidance, the College claims to produce confident and open-minded young women. Like other colleges of its kind, it offers an extensive curriculum and extra-curricular activities.
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History
Founded at a time when educational opportunities are limited to women in the UK, Queen's College is a pioneer in women's education and emancipation. It also led the way in music studies for women under William Sterndale Bennett and John Pyke Hullah who was among the founding directors. At that time, the establishment of Higher Education was filled with criticism in the press and founder F. D. Maurice was forced to defend mathematics teaching intent for women against 'dangerous' consequence claims.
In 1845 David Laing, pastor of Middlesex Hospital collected money with a customer committee to acquire a building at 47 Harley Street in order to create a home for caregivers who were in between jobs. Laing is keen to develop institutions to provide education and certification to teachers. In 1847 he obtained the approval of professor from King's College London to give a lecture at Home. Queen Victoria gave her consent, promised funds and agreed to be a patron. In 1847, the first lecture took place, the Education Committee was established under the chairman F. D. Maurice, and number 45 was purchased. In December of the same year, the first certificate was issued. Meanwhile, it was decided to extend the range of education offered to women who were not nannies.
In the early days of the College, education took place in the form of lectures originally conveyed to all the same girls aged 12 to 20. The younger students were soon given their own 'school' behind the building, which was also open to boys. The Waiting Room becomes the place where the girls will be assembled and introduced by Lady Resident to the companion of those who live with them throughout their classes and known as 'Lady Visitors' (one of whom is Henrietta Stanley, Baroness Stanley of Alderley). When the College was separated from the Institute of Virtue of Authority in 1853, the newly established Government Council, with 'Visitors', the Bishop of London as the head of a puppet, the arrangement that continues to this day. After Maurice's resignation in 1853, Richard Chenevix Trench became the first Principal and took over as Chair of the Education Committee.
In 1900, the College offered broad and liberal education to young women, and had refused an attempt to become, or join, a college of the University of London. Practice offers lectures from staff and visitors throughout the year anyway, and is now a decisive tradition of the College.
During the Second World War, the College almost escaped destruction when a bomb exploded on the opposite side of Harley Street. The windows at the front of the building were destroyed and plaster was broken. The college continued to function during the war with the classes even held in bomb shelters built in the main corridor. Evacuate students to the Lake District and then to Northamptonshire short-lived.
College has been visited by its customers five times. Queen Victoria came on May 9, 1898 for her fiftieth birthday. He himself wrote of the incident: "On my way I stopped at Queen's College at Harley Street, the first Ladies College founded in England, which this year celebrated her birthday.All girls and women outside.The principal, Dean and Mrs. Robinson were presented to I. The principal handed [me] an address, and Miss Coudace, the Queen's expert for the year, a beautiful bunch of roses. "
Queen Mary visited in 1928, and Queen Elizabeth Ratu's mother visited for her centenary birthday in 1948 and again in 1972 and 1980.
College stopped offering boarding accommodation in the 1980s and Kynaston House was re-modeled from the old accommodation to provide offices, a senior common room and the Blue Library.
In 2002, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother opened Queen's College Preparatory School at 61 Portland Place.
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Building
Initially, the College is located at number 66, then numbered back to 45, before Harley Street earned its reputation as a medical profession center in London. Today, he occupies the numbers 43-49, four high-rise houses, three of which are from the mid-eighteenth century and are fronted by a Georgian facade. Number 49, known as the Kynaston House, was built in the early 20th century with Art Nouveau style.
Prior to the establishment of the College, the number 47 was the first physician's practice established at Harley Street, William Rowley. The 45-year-old door of Allan Ramsay worked on an official portrait portrait for George III, whose portrait of Queen Charlotte required the transportation of the Mahkota Jewel, under continuous escort, to his studio on site. Number 43, meanwhile, accommodates poet and politician George Smythe, Viscount Strangford 7 who claimed to have fought the last duel in England in 1852.
The joining of adjacent houses has left a mark on the physical character of the College. There are over a hundred rooms, many on different levels and made by repositioning the internal walls. They are accessed by over thirty stairs, providing an internal room of labyrinth quality and necessitating map issues to new students and staff. The original features survive from previous homes, including fireplaces, Adam-style prints and two ornate and spacious 18th-century atrium listed by English Heritage.
As Universities have grown, buildings have evolved and flourished. Great extensions including Somerville Hall and gymnasium. The stable block behind converted in 1849 to the School house, and the original wine cellar is the current music room. The main corridor, which is a Victorian invention of the incorporation of the ground floor space at number 43, was restored in the early 1990s. The classroom is currently undergoing refurbishment, and the basement is being rearranged to accommodate a shower and changing facilities and a larger dining room that opens onto the courtyard.
The courtyard is the only open space left on the site and is mainly used at breaks. Sports, only compulsory for students at the School, takes place at the nearby Bupati Park facility.
School organization
Each girl is assigned to form around 15-18 members. The form is headed by a tutor and representative, and takes their name from the teacher's initials. There are two or three forms in a year and each year under one year's head supervision. The years consist of three parts of the College, each with a further delegated head.
Queen's College uses its own nomenclature for the year group.
Preparatory School
Higher Education
ethos
"Teachers in every department, if he does his job, will admonish his students that they do not make fashion, or public opinion, their rules; that they do not draw or play, or to learn arithmetic, or language or literature or history, to shine or admired that if this is their goal, they will not be sincere in their work or do it well. "
With these words FD Maurice puts the ethos, which will guide Queen's College to this day, to the gathering crowd at London's Hanover Square Rooms on March 29, 1848. Thus, she distinguishes College, not only in her efforts to educate women, but also contrary to the competitive and strict spirit that characterizes the existing public schools for boys.
The college continues to emphasize education for its own sake. No house, some competition, no official award ceremony, and some medals or trophies are shared. Gifts for academic work are limited to requests for girls to show jobs where they excel for their form tutor, 'Show Form Tutor', or to principal, 'Show Headmaster'.
There are some formal rules and, with the exception of expulsion or suspension, only one official penalty is known as 'duty'. The latter requires the girls to collect plates of dining rooms and trash during their lunch breaks. Otherwise, discipline is handled ad-hoc, through dialogue with girls, tutors and their parents. Academic failure is handled by direct contact with parents and 'chasing' sessions.
Uniform
From the outset, the College did not impose strict dress code for all of its students, although the blazer was required until the 1970s. In recent years, efforts have been made to beautify pupils' performances with the introduction of official sports gear, and in September 2011, a complete uniform for School members (Year 7-9). The latter include a naval jacket and pleated skirt, round neck sweater, and optional pashminas.
Religious Affiliation
The college is Anglican in affiliation, derived from its foundation under Christian Socialist F. D. Maurice. Half the principal from the start College is a vicar or canon of the Anglican Church. Today, Higher Education is associated with the nearest All Souls Church in Langham Place, whose vicar is a school priest. Prayer is said every day in the hall (except on Thursdays), and the year begins with a prayer reading written specifically for the College by Maurice. Members of other religions are welcomed and weekly Jewish meetings take place.
Charity
This College charity work was chosen in the latest examination as a prominent extra-curricular pursuit. Forms regularly collect money for selected charities and assemblies present to the entire College about charity. Sales of charity cakes take place in the main corridor almost every week and other means of collection are designed regularly.
Calendar
Requirements
The three terms are named: Michaelmas, Lent and Summer.
At the end of Lent, the Day of Establishment is observed, when thanksgiving is given for the foundation of the College at All Souls Church, Langham Place, which is also the location of carol services at the end of Michaelmas Period. The last day of each term displays "Entertainment" when students perform their talents before the College gathers in the Hall.
Annual Meeting
The Summer Term concludes with Annual Meetings, when students continue the tradition, beginning in 1854, from marching the corridors of white-clad school, accompanied by staff in academic attire. 'Visitors', Bishops of London, or their representatives, were introduced by the supervising teacher and the Principal for each girl in Higher Education from Year 1 and above and Class 2 and 3 representatives. The event was followed by Principals' reports for governors, parents, staff and students in the academic year and address of the Visitors.
Travel
Trips abroad or to tourist attractions in London, museums, and theaters are organized regularly by departments. Annual trip during Summer is a five-day visit to Northumberland, arranged by the Classical Department for the entire Class 3; the girls visited the Hadrian Wall, the Roman fortress, Durham, and the Farne Islands.
Alumnae
Founded in 1891, the Old Queen's Society exists to connect former students to each other and to schools. The first Secretary of Honor is Frideswide Kekewich and the first President, Ellen Howard.
Known as Old Queens, alumni have included many famous women during school history, including:
- Matilda Ellen Bishop (c.1858-60) First Principal of Royal Holloway College (1887-1897)
- Gertrude Bell (1884-86), archaeologist, cartologist, diplomat
- Katherine Mansfield (1903-06), poet and author
- Sofka Skipwith (Princess Sofka Dolgorouk), Russian ÃÆ'  © migrà ©  ©, Communist, political prisoner, recipient of the Holocaust British Hero Award
- Diana Barnato Walker (1928-34), author and aviator
- Mary Soames (1940), Chairman, Royal National Theater Board and daughter of Winston Churchill
- Jacqueline du PrÃÆ' ©, cellist (1959)
- Anna Wintour OBE (1960-3), editor-in-chief, Vogue magazine
- Jane Asher, actress, entrepreneur, and philanthropist
- Hermione Lee (1963-65), biographer and Professor of English Literature Goldsmith, Oxford
- Harriet Cass, BBC announcer
- Daisy Goodwin (1972-77), BBC television producer
- Emma Freud (1973-80), broadcaster, member of the leading Freud family
- Claudia Rosencrantz (1975-79), journalist, Entertainment Controller, ITV, Commissioner Who Wants to Be a Billionaire, X Factor and I Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! Programming Director Live TV TV Director Virgin Media
- Susannah Constantine (1978), journalist, television presenter and fashion teacher
- Asma al-Assad, First Syrian Madame
- Peaches Geldof, author, presenter and model
- Amber Rudd (1979-81), MP
Head of Queen's College
Staff members
Current
- Charles Stephens, legal historian
Former
- Terry Bagg, poet
- Dorothea Beale, suffragist and educational reformer
- David Bedford, composer
- Louisa Bovell-Sturge, pioneering female doctor
- Isidore Brasseur, teacher for the Prince of Wales
- ÃÆ' â € ° mile Cammaerts, Belgian poet
- Richard Chenevix Trench, Dean of Westminster
- Henry Charles Innes Fripp, Professor of Art
- John Pyke Hullah, composer
- Janet Kay-Shuttleworth
- Elaine Kaye, author
- Charles Kingsley, author and social reformer
- David Laing, pastor and secretary of the Institute of Governess Virtue '
- Fiona McIntosh, Olympian, and former England number 1 player
- Tessa Millar, Olympic rower, and trainer
- Edward Plumptre, theologian
- Anne Smith, world record holder for running miles in 4 minutes and 37 seconds in 1967
- Henrietta Maria Stanley
- William Sterndale Bennett, composer, Principal Royal Academy of Music
- Ethel Truman, the first woman to have a first degree in physics at the University of London
Secondary Source
- Queen's College 1848-1948: Founded by Frederick Denison Maurice by Rosalie Glynn Grylls, London: George Routledge & amp; Sons, Ltd., 1948.
- History of Queen College, London 1848-1972 by Elaine Kaye, London: Chatto and Windus, 1972.
- Queen's College: 150 Years and New Century by Malcolm Billings, London: James & amp; James, 2000.
External links
- Queen's College website
- Old Queen's Society
- Queen's College Preparation School
- English history on line: Queen's College, Harley Street
- Profile at Good School Guide
Footnotes and References
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