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Miss Ironside's School


Miss Ironside's School


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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Text submitted to CC-BY-SA license. Source: Miss Ironside's School by Wikipedia (Historical)


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