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Croydon High School, the Glossary

Croydon High School is a private day school for girls located near Croydon, London, England.^[1]

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Private girls' schools in London
Private schools in the London Borough of Croydon
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Anneka Rice

Anne Lucinda Hartley Rice (born 4 October 1958), known professionally as Anneka Rice, is a Welsh-born television and radio presenter, journalist and painter.

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Barbara Jones (artist)

Barbara Mildred Jones (25 December 1912 – 28 August 1978) was an English artist, writer and mural painter.

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Bradden

Bradden is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England, about west of Towcester.

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Catherine Christian

Catherine Christian (1901–1985) was an English novelist, known for her children's books and retellings of Arthurian legend.

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Charlotte Deane

Charlotte Mary Deane (born 1975) is an English Professor of Structural Bioinformatics and the former Head of the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford.

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Clare Gilbert

Clare Gilbert is a British ophthalmologist, professor and researcher who focuses on blindness in children.

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Croydon

Croydon is a large town in South London, England, south of Charing Cross.

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Dorinda Neligan

Dorinda Neligan (9 June 1833 – 17 July 1914) was an Irish born English headmistress and suffragette.

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Elizabeth Laird (born 1943) is a British writer of children's fiction and travel.

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Elsa Gye

Elsa Gye (1881–1943) was a music student at Guildhall who became a suffragette and involved in disruptive events in London and Scotland and was imprisoned for the cause of women's suffrage.

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Formula One, commonly known as Formula 1 or F1, is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA).

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Gabrielle Bertin, Baroness Bertin

Gabrielle Louise Bertin, Baroness Bertin (born 14 March 1978) is a British Conservative member of the House of Lords and political aide best known for her association with David Cameron during his term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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Geophysics

Geophysics is a subject of natural science concerned with the physical processes and physical properties of the Earth and its surrounding space environment, and the use of quantitative methods for their analysis.

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Girls' Day School Trust

The Girls' Day School Trust (GDST) is a group of 25 independent schools, including two academies, in England and Wales, catering for girls aged 3 to 18.

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Good Morning Britain (2014 TV programme)

Good Morning Britain (often abbreviated to GMB) is a British breakfast television programme that is broadcast on ITV.

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Greater London

Greater London is the administrative area of London, which is coterminous with the London region.

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Hannah Schmitz

Hannah Schmitz (née McMillan; born May 1985) is a British engineer, currently working for Austrian Formula One team Red Bull Racing as Principal Strategy Engineer.

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Henderina Scott

Henderina Victoria Scott (18 July 1862 – 18 January 1929) was an English botanist who pioneered time-lapse photography of plants.

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Hoshū jugyō kō

, or, are supplementary Japanese schools located in foreign countries for students living abroad with their families.

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Independent Schools Council

The Independent Schools Council (ISC) is a non-profit lobby group that represents over 1,300 private schools in the United Kingdom.

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Independent Schools Inspectorate

The Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) is approved by the Secretary of State for Education – under section 106 of the Education and Skills Act 2008 – to inspect private schools in England.

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Jacqueline du Pré

Jacqueline Mary du Pré (26 January 1945 – 19 October 1987) was a British cellist, considered by many as one of the greatest of all time.

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Jane Drew

Dame Jane Drew, (24 March 1911 – 27 July 1996) was an English modernist architect and town planner.

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Japanese School in London

The is a Japanese international school in Acton, London Borough of Ealing.

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Jessie Gilbert

Jessica "Jessie" Laura Cory Gilbert (30 January 1987 – 26 July 2006) was a British chess player.

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Jill Tweedie

Jill Sheila Tweedie (22 May 1936 – 12 November 1993) was a British feminist, writer and broadcaster.

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Joanna Shapland

Joanna Mary Shapland (born 17 February 1950) is a British criminologist, forensic psychologist, and academic, specialising in restorative justice and victimology.

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Josephine Elder

Josephine Elder was the pen name of Olive Gwendoline Potter (5 December 1895 – 24 July 1988), an English writer of children's literature who published ten school stories between 1924 and 1940 as well as numerous short stories for annuals.

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Judy Buxton

Judith Catherine Buxton (born 7 October 1949) is an English actress best known for playing Nurse Katy Shaw in General Hospital (1972–1973), Susan Protheroe in By the Sword Divided (1983–1985) and Ruth Carpenter in On the Up (1990–1992).

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Kate Luard

Kate Evelyn Luard, (29 June 1872 – 16 August 1962), was a British nurse in the Second Boer War and First World War who was awarded the Royal Red Cross and Bar.

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Kate Moss

Katherine Ann Moss (born 16 January 1974) is an English model.

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Kathryn Whaler

Kathryn Anne "Kathy" Whaler OBE FRSE FAGU (born 11 June 1956) is a professor of geophysics at the University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences, in the Research Institute of Earth and Planetary Science and is a member of the Solid Earth Geophysics and Natural Hazards Research Group.

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Lilian Braithwaite

Dame Florence Lilian Braithwaite (9 March 1873 – 17 September 1948) was an English actress, primarily of the stage, although she appeared in both silent and talkie films.

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London Borough of Croydon

The London Borough of Croydon is a London borough in south London, part of Outer London.

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Marie Curie

Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie, was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.

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Marion Roe

Dame Marion Audrey Roe DBE (born 15 July 1936 in London) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, and former MP.

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Mary Baines

Mary Jean Baines, OBE née Silver (29 October 1932 – 21 August 2020) was a British palliative care physician.

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Mary Seacole

Mary Jane Seacole (Anionwu, E. N. (2012), Mary Seacole: nursing care in many lands. British Journal of Healthcare Assistants 6(5), pp. 244–248 23 November 1805 – 14 May 1881) was a British nurse and businesswoman.

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Michael Howard

Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne (born Michael Hecht; 7 July 1941) is a British politician who was Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005.

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Nancy Seear, Baroness Seear

Beatrice Nancy Seear, Baroness Seear (7 August 1913 – 23 April 1997) was a British social scientist and politician.

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Perin Jamsetjee Mistri

Perin Jamsetjee Mistri (1913–1989) was the first woman to qualify as an architect in India.

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Private schools in the United Kingdom

Private schools in the United Kingdom (also called independent schools) are schools that require fees for admission and enrollment.

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Red Bull Racing

Red Bull Racing, currently competing as Oracle Red Bull Racing and also known simply as Red Bull or RBR, is a Formula One racing team, racing under an Austrian licence and based in the United Kingdom.

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Royal Astronomical Society

The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is a learned society and charity that encourages and promotes the study of astronomy, solar-system science, geophysics and closely related branches of science.

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Sandra Howard

Sandra Howard, Lady Howard of Lympne (born August 1940) is an English novelist, former model and the wife of Michael Howard, a former leader of the Conservative Party.

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Selsdon

Selsdon is an area in South London, England, located in the London Borough of Croydon, in the ceremonial county of Greater London.

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South Croydon

South Croydon in south London is the area surrounding the valley south of central Croydon and running as far south as the former Red Deer public house on the Brighton Road.

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Susan Wrigglesworth

Susan Wrigglesworth (16 September 1954 – 17 March 1996), whose married name was Susan Wojciechowski, was the youngest female foilist in the history of British fencing to compete in the Olympic Games.

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Susanna Reid

Susanna Reid (born 10 December 1970) is an English television presenter and journalist.

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Susie Ma

Susie Ma is a British-Chinese skincare entrepreneur.

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The Apprentice (British TV series)

The Apprentice is a British business-styled reality game show created by Mark Burnett, distributed by Fremantle and broadcast by the BBC since 16 February 2005.

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Tropic Skincare

Tropic Skincare is a British online and multi-level marketing company which sells skincare and cosmetic products.

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University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh (University o Edinburgh, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.

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Wendy Savage

Wendy Diane Savage (born 12 April 1935 in Surrey) is a British gynaecologist, and advocate and campaigner of women's rights in childbirth and fertility.

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Women's Social and Political Union

The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was a women-only political movement and leading militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom founded in 1903.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Yootha Joyce

Yootha Joyce Needham (20 August 1927 – 24 August 1980), known as Yootha Joyce, was an English actress best known for playing Mildred Roper opposite Brian Murphy in the sitcom Man About the House (1973–1976) and its spin-off George and Mildred (1976–1979).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croydon_High_School

Also known as Croydon High School for Girls, Croydon School for Girls.

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Croydon High School, the Glossary

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See also

Private girls' schools in London

Private schools in the London Borough of Croydon

Schools of the Girls' Day School Trust

References