St Paul's Girls' School - High Mistresses

High Mistresses

The headmistress of St Paul's Girls School is known as the High Mistress.

  • Frances Ralph Grey OBE (d.1935), High Mistress 1903–1927
  • Ethel Strudwick CBE (1880–1954), High Mistress 1927–1948, daughter of the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Melhuish Strudwick
  • Margaret Osborn (1906–1985), High Mistress 1948–1963
  • Dame Alison Munro DBE (1914 – 9 September 2008), High Mistress 1964–1974
  • Lady Brigstocke CBE (Heather Renwick Brigstocke, created Baroness Brigstocke 1990) (1929–2004), High Mistress 1974–1989
  • Helen Elizabeth Webber Williams (born 1938), High Mistress 1989–1992
  • Janet Gough (born 1940), High Mistress 1993–1998
  • Elizabeth Mary Diggory (1945–2007), High Mistress 1998–2006
  • Clarissa Mary Farr (born 1958), High Mistress 2006–

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