DIOCESAN HIGH SCHOOL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19298, 10 April 1926, Page 12

DIOCESAN HIGH SCHOOL.

THE NEW HEADMISTRESS. MISS SANDFORD'S CAREER. BROTHER WITH VICTORIA CROSS. [FROM our own correspondent.] LONDON. Fob. 2G. Miss E. 11. Sand ford, who has been appointed headmistress of the Girls' Diocesan High School, Auckland, will, relinquish her present position at the dotting 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. Hero she obtained honours in the Classical .Tripos. While at Girton sho 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 an M.A. of Cambridge. She also lias the actual degree of B.A. of Dublin University. After her university training Miss Sandford returned to Devonshire and joined tho staff of the Exeter High School. Subsequently she was on the staff of tho Southland School, Exmouth. In 1923 sho took up an appointment at the Notting Hill Girls' High School and became second mistress and deputy-head-mistress. This school is one of the oldest, foundations by the Girls' Private Day School Trust, and probably tho be.stknovvn of this type. Training goes noi only up to tho matriculation standard, hut two years of advanced work is given after matriculation in preparation for the university. Miss Sandford belongs to a well-known oM Shropshire family. Her father was Archdeacon ufc Exeter for 20 years, and there did good work in the cause of education. He was a famous Rugbian, distinguishing himself in the cricket world. Ho was a friend of Archbishop Temple and edited the latter's memoirs. Miss Sandford is one of a family of nine (two girls and seven boys). Two of her brothers were in the Zeebrugge Rud. Tho younger was in command of Submarine C 3, which blew up the viaduct. For his part in the night's work he obtained the Victoria Cross. Captain Francis H. Sandford, D.5.0., who died only a fortnight ago, was commander in H.M.S. Repulse when this ship visited New Zealand with the special squadron in 1924. Another brother is a housemaster at Marlborough College, two have been in the Sudan Civil Service and another is native commissioner in Rhodesia.