Miss Ironside's School (also called Miss Ironside's Day School and Miss Ironside's School For Girls) was a school at 2 Elvaston Place, in Kensington. The journalist John Walsh, writing in The Daily Telegraph, called it "legendary".
Notable alumnae included:
- Salimah Aga Khan (née Sarah Frances Croker Poole), former fashion model and an ex-wife of the IV Aga Khan Prince Karim Aga Khan
- Jane Birkin, singer and actor
- Sheila and Ellen-Craig Crosland, daughters of Susan Crosland, journalist, and step-daughters of Tony Crosland, Labour Education Minister who started the comprehensive school movement in the UK
- Rose Dugdale, a militant in the Irish republican organisation and the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA)
- Jane Fawcett, a World War II codebreaker, singer, and heritage preservationist
- Teresa Hayter, writer and activist
- Sarah Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham (née Boyd-Carpenter), economist, journalist, and politician
- Virginia Ironside, journalist, agony aunt and writer, whose great-aunt was headmistress
- Tracy Reed, actor
- Jan Struther, writer
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