St Paul's Girls' School

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 1964–1974Janet Gough, 'Munro , Dame Alison (1914–2008)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Jan 2012; online edn, May 2012 accessed 31 Dec 2016
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
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
 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
 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 1992–2017Alexandra Shulman  Vogue UK, 22 April 2008 
 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 ministerHarriet Harman: I dropped my cut-glass accent to fit in with Labour - Telegraph
 Susan Kramer – former Liberal Democrat MP
 Mavis Tate – Conservative MP and women's rights campaigner
 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

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. In November 2017, One teacher resigned vecause of the allegations.

References

Other websites

 Official School Website
 ISI Inspection Reports 
 Profile on the ISC website
 Profile at The Good Schools Guide
 Profile  at Tatler Schools Guide

Category:1904 establishments in England
Category:Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
Category:Schools in London