DOROTHEA See also:

• DOROTHEA BEALE (1831-1906)

BEALE (1831-1906)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English schoolmistress, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 21st of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1831 in See also:

• LONDON

London, her See also:

• FATHER

father being a physician of See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

• FAMILY

family and cultivated tastes . She had already shown a strong intellectual See also:

• BENT
• BENT (E1. BENI)
• BENT, JAMES THEODORE (1852–1897)

bent and considerable force of See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character when in 1848 she was one of the first to attend lectures at the newly opened See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

Queen's See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College for Ladies, London, and from 1849 to 1856 she herself took classes there . In 1857 for a few months she became See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head teacher of the See also:

• CLERGY (M.E. clergie, O. Fr. clergie, from Low Lat. form clericia [Skean, by assimilation with O. Fr. clergie, Fr. clerge,from Low Lat. clericatus)
• CLERGY, BENEFIT OF

Clergy Daughters' school at Casterton, Westmoreland, but narrow religious prejudices on the See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• GOVERNORS

governors led to her retirement . In 1858 she was appointed See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal of the Ladies College at See also:

• CHELTENHAM

Cheltenham (opened 1854), then in very See also:

• LOW, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

low See also:

• WATER

water . Her tact and strenuousness, backed by able See also:

• FINANCIAL

financial management, led to its success being thoroughly established by 1864, and as the college increased in See also:

• NUMBERS, BOOK OF
• NUMBERS, PARTITION OF

numbers new buildings were erected from 1873 onwards . Under See also:

• MISS

Miss See also:

• BEALE, DOROTHEA (1831-1906)

Beale's headship it See also:

• GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew into one of the See also:

• GREAT

great girls' See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools of the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, and its development and example played an important part in the revolution effected in regard to the higher See also:

• EDUCATION

education of See also:

• WOMEN

women . Miss Beale retained her See also:

• POST

post till her See also:

• DEATH

death on the 9th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1906 . Strongly religious by nature, broad-minded and keenly interested in all branches of culture, she exercised a far-reaching See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence on her pupils . Her See also:

• LIFE

Life was written by See also:

• ELIZABETH
• ELIZABETH (1533-1603)
• ELIZABETH (1596-1662)
• ELIZABETH (1635–1650)
• ELIZABETH [ AMELIE EUGENIE ] (1837—1898)
• ELIZABETH [1lisabeth Philippine Marie Helene of France] (1764—1794)
• ELIZABETH [PAULINE ELIZABETH OTTILIE LOUISE] (1843– )
• ELIZABETH [PETROVNA] (1709-1762), EMPRESS
• ELIZABETH, SAINT (1207-1231)

Elizabeth See also:

• RAIKES, ROBERT (1735–18,x)

Raikes (1908) .