page_title: Manchester High School for Girls
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Manchester High School for Girls / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Manchester High School for Girls - Dover Street
context_page_description: Manchester High School for Girls is an English independent day school for girls and a member of the Girls School Association. It is situated in Fallowfield, Manchester.
  The head teacher is Claire Hewitt who took up the position in January 2009 and is the 10th head teacher in the school's history.
context_section_description: The school was founded in 1874 by nine men and women who were prominent citizens of Manchester: it was first established in Chorlton on Medlock. A new school was built in Dover Street in 1881. (The building is now occupied by the University of Manchester School of Chemistry). The founding group included Prof Augustus Samuel Wilkins, Harriet, Robert Dukinfield Darbishire and Edward Donner (afterwards Sir Edward Donner, Bart.) The first headmistress was Elizabeth Day. Day was replaced as head by Sara Annie Burstall in 1898.
  In September 1939 the school was evacuated to Cheadle Hulme and by 1940 a new school building was under construction at Fallowfield. The unfinished buildings at the Grangethorpe Road site were destroyed by bombing on 20 December 1940. In 1941 the school moved temporarily to Didsbury and by 1949 a new building at Grangethorpe Road began to be occupied. The move into the new school was complete by 1952. The Grangethorpe site was occupied by a large private house and gardens from 1882 to 1936.
caption: The Manchester High School for Girls, Dover Street (since 1947 part of the Victoria University of Manchester)
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