LADY SCHOOL INSPECTORS.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9385, 8 April 1896, Page 4

LADY SCHOOL INSPECTORS.

It has been decided by the English Education Department to appoint women as inspectors of elementary schools. The Lord President has already appointed two ladies —Mice R. A. Munday, Li, A., Lady Superintendent of the \\'estminster Tecliuioal Institute, and Miaa Willie, of the Cambridge Training College tor Women. Miss Munday is the daughter of the late Mr J. Munday, R.N., and by her mother it descended from a Huguenot family. Oα leaving the Dovercouro school, Eaaex, she entered Whitelands College in 1880. At her scholarship and in both certificate examinations she gained first cLwses, and has since gained the St. Andrew's University LL.A. degree, with first-clase honours. In 1887 Miss Munday was appointed head mistress of the St. Stephen's Townshend schools, Westminster. When the Baroness BurdettCoutts founded the Westminster Technical Institute she appointed Mias Munday to be the Lady Superintendent, a ohoioe more than justified by'reeults. Mies S. Willie wae born in 1863, in County Armagh, Ire* land,, and educated partly at Edinburgh, and partly at a private school 'in Forfar, Scotland. She is an LL.A. of St. Andrew's, and has had a distinguished academic career. Her earlier experiences of school teaching were gained at Wigan and Lewes. For three years she has been on the staff of lecturers at the Cambridge Training College for Women Teachers..