Notting Hill and Ealing High School

History

Since being founded in 1873, the school has changed both its location and its name. When the Girls' Day School Trust, then the Girls' Public Day School Trust, was formed in 1872, it established its first two schools in West London. In January 1873, the Trust opened Chelsea High School (a predecessor of Kensington Preparatory School) to serve the area immediately to the west of the centre of the city and nine months later, Notting Hill High School which was to serve families in the area to the north of Hyde Park. Harriet Morant Jones was the founding head who looked after ten pupils assisted by her sister. Harriet Jones retired in 1900. Controversially, Ethel Gavin was appointed instead of an internal heir apparent and resignations followed. Gavin was a "capable and experienced headmistress" until 1908 when she moved to the GPDST school at Wimbledon.

The school originally occupied premises in Norland Square When the direct grant scheme was abolished in 1976, it became an independent school.

Present day

• Achieng Ajulu-Bushell (b. 1994), Kenyan and British swimmer
• Margaret Alexander, Countess Alexander of Tunis (1905–1977), Viceregal consort of Canada, Châtelaine of Rideau Hall & Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire
• Professor Polly Arnold (b. 1972) Professor of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh
• Ava Alice Muriel Astor (1902-1956), American heiress and socialite
• Barbara Ayrton-Gould (1886–1950), Labour politician and suffragist
• Sarah Badel (b. 1943), actress
• Angellica Bell (b. 1976), television presenter
• Frances Blogg (1869–1938), author and poet
• Mabel Haynes Bode (1864–1922), academic
• Dame Harriette Chick (1875–1977), protein scientist and nutritionist
• Diana Churchill (1909–1963), daughter of Sir Winston Churchill
• Sarah Churchill, Baroness Audley (1914–1982), actress
• Mary Collin (1860–1955), suffragist
• Agnes de Selincourt (1872–1917), missionary and educator
• Astra Desmond (1893–1973), contralto
• Frances Hermia Durham (1873–1948), civil servant
• Kathleen Mary Easmon Simango (1892-1924), Sierra Leonean missionary and artist
• Professor Beatrice Edgell (1871–1948), psychologist
• Katharine Esdaile (1881–1950), art historian
• Pippa Evans (b. 1982), comedian
• Margaret Fairweather (1901–1944), aviator
• Kathryn Flett (b. 1964), TV critic
• Alice Franklin (1885–1964), feminist
• Lynne Frederick (1954–1994), actress
• Abi Fry (b. 1981), violist with the band British Sea Power
• Jamila Gavin (b. 1941), author
• Rose Graham (1875–1963), historian
• Virginia Graham (1910–1993), writer, poet and translator
• Olivia Hallinan (b. 1985), actress
• Emily Hamilton (b. 1971), actress
• Bettany Hughes (b. 1968), historian
• Violet Hunt (1862-1942), author and literary hostess
• Konnie Huq (b. 1975), television presenter
• Rupa Huq (b. 1972), Labour Party Member of Parliament
• Aeta Lamb (1886–1928), suffragist
• Karolina Laskowska (b. 1992), fashion designer
• Nona Liddell (1927–2017), violinist
• Rebecca Lowe (b. 1980), sports broadcaster
• Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda (1883–1958), suffragist
• Betty Miller (1910-1965), author
• Ernestine Mills (1871–1959), artist, writer & suffragist
• Jane Alice Morris (1861–1935), embroiderer
• May Morris (1862–1938), artist & editor
• Irene Petrie (1864–1897), missionary
• Rosalind Pitt-Rivers (1907–1990), biochemist
• Ruth Plant (1912–1988) architect & academic
• Eleanor Purdie (1872–1929), philologist
• Clara Rackham (1875–1966), suffragist
• Hannah Reid (b. 1989), musician with the band London Grammar
• Dame Angela Rumbold (1932–2010), Member of Parliament & Government Minister
• Hilda Runciman, Viscountess Runciman of Doxford (1869–1956), Liberal politician
• Dame Nancy Salmon (1906–1999), Women's Royal Air Force leader
• Dame Louise Samuel (1870–1925), suffragist & charity worker
• Professor Caroline Skeel (1872–1951), historian
• GB Stern (1890–1973), novelist
• Hannah Sullivan (b. 1979), poet
• Helena Swanwick (1864–1939), suffragist & pacifist
• Penny Vincenzi (1939–2018), novelist
• Nina Wadia (b. 1968), actress
• Emily Watson (b. 1967), actress
• Reverend Alison White (b. 1956), bishop
• Elizabeth Wiskemann (1899–1971), journalist & historian
• Professor Helen Wodehouse (1880–1964), philosopher & academic
• Frances Wood (1883–1919), chemist & statistician

Notable former staff

• Edith Aitken, teacher
• Hertha Ayrton, engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor
• Alice Cooper, teacher
• Ella Mary Edghill, translator
• Ethel Gavin head 1900-1908
• Harriet Morant Jones was the founding head
• Jane Ellen Harrison, classical scholar
• Winifred Holtby, journalist and novelist
• Katharine Jex-Blake, classical scholar
• Margaret Meyer, mathematician
• Marie Shedlock, story teller
• Katharine Wallas, politician
• Emily Ward, pioneer of childcare education

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