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FRANCES MARY BUSS (1827-1894)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 875 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARY See also:BUSS (1827-1894)  , See also:English schoolmistress, was See also:born in See also:London in 1827, the daughter of the painter-etcher R . W . See also:Buss, one of the See also:original illustrators of Pickwick . She was educated at a school in See also:Camden See also:Town, and continued there as a teacher, but soon joined her See also:mother in keeping a school in Kentish Town . In 1848 she was one of the original attendants at lectures at the new See also:Queen's See also:College for Ladies . In 185o her school was moved to Camden See also:Street, and under its new name of the See also:North London Collegiate School for Ladies it rapidly increased in See also:numbers and reputation . In 1864 See also:Miss Buss gave See also:evidence before the See also:Schools Inquiry See also:Commission, and in its See also:report her school was singled out for exceptional See also:commendation . Indeed, under her See also:influence, what was then See also:pioneer See also:work of the highest importance had been done to put the See also:education of girls on a proper. intellectual footing . Shortly afterwards the Brewers' See also:Company and the Clothworkers' Company provided funds by which the existing North London Collegiate School was rehoused and a Camden School for Girls founded, and both were endowed under a new See also:scheme, Miss Buss continuing to be See also:principal of the former . She and Miss See also:Beale of See also:Cheltenham became famous as the See also:chief leaders in this See also:branch of the reformed educational See also:movement; she played an active See also:part in promoting the success of the Girls' Public See also:Day School Company, encouraging the connexion of the girls' schools with the university See also:standard by See also:examinations, working for the See also:establishment of See also:women's colleges, and improving the training of teachers; and her energetic See also:personality was a potent force among her pupils and colleagues . She died in London on the 24th of See also:December 1894 .

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