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3 unusual facts about Canberra Girls' Grammar School


Canberra Girls' Grammar School

Tupou Draunidalo – Fijian lawyer, Vice-President of the Fiji Law Society and daughter of former Deputy Prime Minister of Fiji, Kuini Speed

From 1926 to early 1928, the Old Rectory of St John the Baptist Church, Reid, was leased from the Government by the Kilburn Sisters.

Glebe Park, Canberra

From 1926 to early 1928 the Old Rectory at St Johns was leased from the Government by the Anglican religious order of the Community of the Sisters of the Church, or the Kilburn Sisters, to found St Gabriel's school which later became the Canberra Girls' Grammar School.


British Schools Karting Championship

Scotland's Hutchesons' Grammar School went on to seal victory by a margin of 5 points in front of Hurstmere A. Ponteland High School rounded of the podium and Northern Ireland's Regent House A went on to finish in 4th.

Clifton Hall

Clifton Hall Girls' Grammar School, a former girls' grammar school based in Clifton Hall

Donal O'Donnell

He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and was educated at St. Mary's Christian Brothers' Grammar School, Belfast, University College Dublin, King's Inns and the University of Virginia.

Fanny Elizabeth Hunt

She was the first headmistress of Ipswich Girls' Grammar School, Queensland, from its opening in 1892 until 1901.

Hutchesons' Grammar School

The brothers built Hutchesons' Hospital Building in the Trongate which survived the fire that destroyed much of the city in 1652.

Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School

Students are divided into six houses, named after characters and places in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe.

The itinerary included Paris, London, Venice, Florence and Rome over a period of 17 days, where students visited various galleries and attended cooking classes.

Jackson McGreevy

Born in Belfast, McGreevy first excelled at hurling whilst at school in St. Mary's CBGS.

Lois White

She attended Epsom Girls' Grammar School from 1919-1922, excelling at all subjects, moving on to study at Elam in 1923.

Nicky Gavron

She studied at Worcester Girls' Grammar School, followed by study of the history of art at the Courtauld Institute in London.

O. Douglas

She attended Hutchesons' Grammar School in Glasgow, but lived most of her later life in Peebles in the Scottish border country, not far from the village of Broughton where her parents first met.

Oberschule zum Dom

Exchanges are conducted annually between the OzD and Adams' Grammar School (a free state Grammar School funded by the Haberdashers Company) in the United Kingdom and the OzD and the Lycée-Collège de la Planta in French speaking Switzerland.

Paul Blomfield

Born in Chatham, Paul Blomfield was educated at the Abbeydale Boys' Grammar School in Sheffield and Tadcaster Grammar School.

Stuart Meeson

Stuart Meeson, younger son of Trevor and Mary Meeson of Newport, Shropshire, was educated at Adams' Grammar School (1983-1990), Newport.


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