NEW HEADMISTRESS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18680, 1 May 1926, Page 17

NEW HEADMISTRESS.

FOR AUCKLAND DIOCESAN SCHOOL. (FKOJI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, February 26. Miss E. H. Sandford, -who has been appointed headmistress of . the Girls' Diocesan High School, Auckland, willrelinquish her present position at the Not ting Hill Girls' High School in July, and will probably take up her new duties in the Dominion at the beginning of next year. Miss Sandford was educated at the Exeter High School, the Queen's School, Chester, and then went to Girton College, Cambridge. Here she obtained Honours in the Classical Tripos. While at Girton she was captain of the Hockey Club, and obtained her, "blue" in this branch of sport. Cambridge does not yet confer full degrees upon women students, but Miss Sandford has the equivalent of a M.A, of Cambridge. She also has the actual degree of B.A. of Dublin University. After her University training Miss Sandford returned to Devonshire, and joined the staff of the Exeter High School. Subsequeutly she was on the staff-of the Southland School, Ex mouth. In 1923 she took up an appointment at the Notting Hill Girls' High School, and became second mistress and deputy headmistress. This school is one of the oldest foundations by the Girls' Private Day School Trust, and probably the best known of this type. Training goes not only up to the matriculation standard, but two year 6 of advanced work is given after matriculation in preparation for the University. Miss Sandford belongs to a wellknown old Shropshire family. Her father was Archdeacon at Exeter for twenty years, and there did good work in the cause of education.. _ He was a famous Rugbeian distinguishing himself in the (Ticket world. He was a friend o f Archbishop Temple, and edited the latter's memoirs. Miss Sandford is one of a family of nine (two girls and seven hoys). Two of her brothers were in the Zeebrugge Raid. The younger was in command of Submarine C 3 which blew up the viaduct. For his part in the night's work T"s obtained the V.C. Captain Francis H. Sandford, D.5.0., who died onlr only a fortnicbt ago, was Commander in H.M.S Repulse when thsi ship visited New 7<Mnnd with the Special Squadron in 192-1. Another brother is a housemaster at Mnrlbnrou.Mi College: two have been in the Sudan Civil Service. aVid another is Native Commissioner in Rhodesia.