LETTERS AND PAPERS OF ALICE LUSHINGTON

The contents comprise:

7854/2/1 LETTERS TO ALICE LUSHINGTON FROM MEMBERS OF THE LUSHINGTON FAMILY AND OTHER RELATIONS, 1838-1896
Includes two letters to Frances Lushington from Hester Russell and one letter from Alice Lushington.

7854/2/2 LETTERS TO ALICE LUSHINGTON FROM FRIENDS, 1848-1903

7854/2/3 LETTERS FROM ALICE LUSHINGTON TO SUSAN LUSHINGTON, 1887-[1898]
Alice Lushington often omitted a formal greeting when writing. She usually signed herself 'Newty' or 'N' which seems to have been the family name for her. One letter, 7854/2/3/174, is to Margaret Lushington. For papers of Susan Lushington, see 7854/4/-.

7854/2/4 LETTER FROM ALICE LUSHINGTON TO JANE LUSHINGTON, [nd, pre 1884]
Jane Lushington (nee Mowatt, d.1884), wife of Vernon Lushington, Alice's sister in law and Susan Lushington's mother.

Alice Lushington (1829-1903) was a pioneer educationalist. She and her sisters ran the Ockham Industrial Schools which had been set up by Lady Byron's daughter. She was Lady Principal of the First College for Training Women for Higher Education opened in 1878, now called the Maria Grey Training College. She later became Lady Principal of the College for Female Pupil Teachers of the Voluntary Schools in Liverpool, opened in 1881. The 1881 census records her as being at Hinderton Hall, Great Neston, Cheshire, the home of Christopher Bushell who, with Samuel G Rathbone, had instituted a Pupil Teacher College in two houses in Shaw Street, Liverpool. Alice and her sister Frances later founded one of the first co-educational boarding schools in the country in Kingsley, Hampshire, in 1875. Pupils at the school included the children of servants as well as those of wealthier parents. The school closed not long after the death of Frances Lushington in 1900. [Letters to Alice Lushington from her father Stephen Lushington are under 7854/1/8. There are six letters from Alice Lushington to Oscar Browning, the education reformer, in the Archive Centre, King's College, Cambridge (995/A)].

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Deposited by Mr R Norris of London through David Taylor of Cobham in October 2005 and January 2014.

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