Knightsbridge School

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Knightsbridge School was a school for girls in Knightsbridge, South Australia (now Leabrook), which ran from 1886 to 1921.

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History

Harriet Anne Cook (c. 1855 – November 1943) in 1885 founded a school in a spare room of a house on The Parkway, Knightsbridge owned by Euphemia Clark, whose husband, M(atthew) Symonds Clark, was a brother of John Howard Clark. Harriet was the author of an unpublished personal account Reminiscences of Life on the Government Farm 1874–1884 (1942). [1]

Her sister Edith Agnes Cook (1859 – 2 April 1942), principal of the Advanced School for Girls in Franklin Street, Adelaide, married Samuel Grau "Sam" Hübbe ( – c. 15 October 1900) on 3 January 1885, and late that year resigned from the school, to be replaced by Madeline Rees George (c. 1851–1931). She opened a school in her house in partnership with Harriet, whose students formed the nucleus of Knightsbridge School, as they decided to name it. Boys were accepted in the youngest classes, but older classes were restricted to girls. There was no uniform, and no organised sport. [2] Enrolments soon outgrew the space available and they purchased another house in Statenborough Street, which served until 1921, when they retired. [2] [3] [4]

Postscript

In 1922 the school was taken over by Misses Jones and Wells, "who are employing the Dalton and Montessori methods", [5] but appears not to have survived beyond 1922. The Misses Jones and Wells were, with Calder, Eurhythmics teachers, of which Heather Gell was in South Australia the chief exponent.

In September 1996 the Burnside Historical Society affixed a memorial plaque at the premises, 28 Statenborough Street, Leabrook, in recognition of Mrs Hübbe’s Knightsbridge School. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Donated to Archives Department in 1943; copies are held by the University of Adelaide and Old Government House, Belair National Park.
  2. 1 2 "Knightsbridge School Memories". The Advertiser (Adelaide) . LXXXVI (26576). South Australia. 8 December 1943. p. 3. Retrieved 11 August 2016– via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "Death of Miss Harriet Cook". The Advertiser (Adelaide) . LXXXVI (26571). South Australia. 2 December 1943. p. 2. Retrieved 14 July 2016– via National Library of Australia.
  4. 1 2 "Out among the People". The Advertiser (Adelaide) . LXXXVI (26743). South Australia. 20 June 1944. p. 6. Retrieved 14 July 2016– via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "Burnside the Beautiful". The Observer (Adelaide) . LXXX (5, 953). South Australia. 3 March 1923. p. 37. Retrieved 11 August 2016– via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ "Burnside Historical Society – Index of Plaques and Dates" (PDF). Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  7. ↑ "The Junior Public Examination". South Australian Register . LXI (15, 629). South Australia. 15 December 1896. p. 5. Retrieved 11 August 2016– via National Library of Australia.
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