Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Endowed Schools Act
- 1 The shaping of Section 12
- 2 The men who rejected the dead hand
- 3 The money problem
- 4 Opponents
- 5 Supporters
- 6 What was achieved
- 7 The changeover of 1874
- 8 The long haul
- 9 The Charity Commission spirit
- 10 The women's movement in the later years
- Appendices
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
3 - The money problem
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Endowed Schools Act
- 1 The shaping of Section 12
- 2 The men who rejected the dead hand
- 3 The money problem
- 4 Opponents
- 5 Supporters
- 6 What was achieved
- 7 The changeover of 1874
- 8 The long haul
- 9 The Charity Commission spirit
- 10 The women's movement in the later years
- Appendices
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Money, money, where is it to come from?
Miss Buss, 1871Endowment for Miss Buss
In theory the Commissioners' very large powers were, as was said, sufficient to enable them ‘to take a girls’ school in Northumberland and make it a boys ‘school in Cornwall’ or vice versa. In practice, as their Yorkshire experience makes plain, they worked very much in terms of locality, applying Section 12 as a means of extending the range of Charles II's foundation in Bradford or John Drake's bequest to the people of Keighley. But there was one exception: from the very beginning the Commissioners were resolved to find endowment for Miss Buss.
Nothing shows the weakness of the girls' school lobby more than the predicament in 1870 of the very successful North London Collegiate. The idea of converting her private venture into a public school had grown on Miss Buss from the time she appeared before the Taunton Commission and she tried now to assure its future by putting it under the control of a trust. Financial security was another matter. The rich might be ready to pay through the nose to anyone prepared to teach their daughters accomplishments, but when it came to subscribing the endowment which would enable a serious girls' school lobby more than school to offer scholarships and keep up its premises, they were not interested. Appeals went in vain to City companies and people of influence. Maria Grey wrote letters to The Times urging support for the Collegiate School and for its Lower School in Camden which Miss Buss started in 1871 to meet the demand for a less expensive but equally sound education for girls.
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- Feminists and BureaucratsA Study in the Development of Girls' Education in the Nineteenth Century, pp. 53 - 69Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1980