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2 unusual facts about St Mary's Anglican Girls' School


Scherri-Lee Biggs

Biggs was born in 1990 in South Africa, but emigrated with her family to Australia when she was 12 and attended St Mary's Anglican Girls' School.

St Mary's Anglican Girls' School

In 2005, the St Mary’s Anglican Girls’ School Foundation purchased 100 acres of land in the Margaret River Wine Region.


Albert Lacombe

For the remainder of his life, Lacombe played a major role in founding schools throughout the West, such as St Mary's School in what is now the Mission District of Calgary.

Anthony Minichiello

On 22 January 2012, Anthony Minichiello wed Australian shoe-designer, Terry Biviano, in one of the most lavish ceremonies held at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney.

Caerau Hillfort

St Mary’s church probably dates to the 13th century, and is set within an oval churchyard.

Charlotte Ritchie

Educated at James Allen's Girls' School in Dulwich South London, she took part as an uncredited extra in Harry Potter: The Goblet of Fire and went on to play the lead character in a short film The Open Doors with Michael Sheen and Cherie Lunghi.

Coloma Convent Girls' School

The school regards its founder as being the Very Reverend Canon Constant Van Crombrugghe, who founded the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary and Joseph in Belgium in 1817.

Emma Tennant

Born in London, she was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and spent the World War II years and her childhood summers at the family's faux Gothic mansion The Glen in Peeblesshire.

Ernest Procter

Procter, like his father, attended school first in York at the Quaker Bootham Friends' School in York, New Yorkshire.

Frederick Rolfe

In 1887 he was sponsored to train at St Mary's College, Oscott near Birmingham and in 1889 was a student at the Scots College in Rome, but was thrown out by both due to his inability to concentrate on priestly studies and his erratic behaviour.

Frederick Whitehead

Although he predominantly painted landscapes, he also concentrated occasionally on religious architecture, such as St Mary’s, Warwick, and Gloucester Cathedral.

Henry Bristow Wilson

He entered Merchant Taylors' School in October 1809, and was elected to St John's College, Oxford, in 1821.

Holy Family Church

Holy Family Church, School, and Rectory, Mitchell, South Dakota, listed on the NRHP in South Dakota

John and Phyllis Murphy

Their commercial work included buildings for Fintona Girls' School, Caulfield Grammar School, commercial buildings including a television station in Shepparton, and a number of works in collaboration with other Architects.

Joseph MacRory

MacRory taught Scripture and Modern Theology at St Mary's College, Oscott in England until 1889, when he was appointed Professor of Scripture and Oriental Languages at his alma mater of Maynooth College.

King's Norton Boys' School

Roxbee Cox, Baron Kings Norton, Chancellor from 1969-97 of Cranfield University, and aeronautical engineer, being Managing Director from 1944-6 of Power Jets, and Director from 1946-8 of the National Gas Turbine Establishment

Lady Nicholas Windsor

Paola Windsor speaks seven languages, and was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and at Wycombe Abbey, where she was William Johnston Yapp Scholar.

Larry Martyn

Martyn died on 7 August 1994 at home in St Mary's Bay, Kent, and was survived by his wife Hilary and their two daughters.

Lichfield Heritage Centre

The museum is located on the south side of the market square on the second floor of St Mary's Church in the centre of Lichfield, Staffordshire in the United Kingdom.

Manchester Royal Infirmary

Other teaching hospitals which are part of the same NHS trust are: St Mary's Hospital, Manchester (founded 1790), the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital (1814), and the University Dental Hospital of Manchester (1884); Royal Manchester Children's Hospital (1829).

Medical slang

There is an annual round-up of the usage of medical slang by British physician Dr. Adam Fox of St Mary's Hospital, London.

Methodist High School, Kanpur

The school is run and managed by the Methodist Church in India, which also runs a number of schools and colleges in India such as the I T College, Lucknow UP, the Lucknow Christian College, the Calcutta Boys' School and the Calcutta Girls' High School, Kolkata and the Baldwin Boys High School and Baldwin Girls High School, Bangalore, to name a few.

Murray Halberg

Halberg House of Hutt International Boys' School is named after Sir Murray Halberg, and students in the house earn what are called "meter points" which relates to Sir Murray Halberg and his running career.

Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School

Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School (Singapore) is split into two sections (the primary school and the secondary school).

Penwortham Priory

A small castle was built on the hill in Penwortham overlooking the river crossing and the castle mound (the motte) can still be seen behind St Mary's church.

Peter Mews

Mews was born at Caundle Purse in Dorset, and was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, London, and at St John's College, Oxford, of which he was scholar and fellow.

Pygostyle

The term must have been known as early as around 1400 AD, when a carpenter had been contracted to provide new choir stalls for St Mary's Church, Nantwich.

Raja Nong Chik Zainal Abidin

He attended Methodist Boys' School, Kuala Lumpur and later Victoria Institution before studying at the Royal Military College.

Rebecca Lim

Rebecca was born to a Hokkien family.The second child of three children, Rebecca studied at CHIJ Saint Nicholas Girls' School (Primary and Secondary), Victoria Junior College and Singapore Management University (SMU).

Rugby Group

Five of the Rugby Group schools, Charterhouse School, Harrow School, Winchester College, Rugby School and Shrewsbury School are members of the original nine 'Clarendon' public schools defined under the Public Schools Act 1868, with the other Clarendon schools (Eton College, St Paul's School, Merchant Taylor's School and Westminster School) having other affiliations.

Saint Alkmund's Way Footbridge

In 2007 Derby City Council demolished and rebuilt the footbridge over St Alkmund’s Way to link the city centre with St Mary’s Church.

School's Out

Recess: School's Out, a 2001 animated film based on the TV series Recess

Sir William Dawes, 3rd Baronet

From the age of nine, William Dawes studied at the Merchant Taylors' School in London.

Song Ong Siang

He also found the Singapore Chinese Girls' School together with Dr Lim and other prominent Straits Chinese gentlemen, in July 1899 on Hill Street.

St Mary's Church, Bungay

This contains a 17th-century Flemish panel depicting the Resurrection that was given to the church by the author H. Rider Haggard.

St Mary's Church, Derwen

The stained glass in the south chancel window was designed by H. E. Wooldridge and made by James Powell and Sons; it is dated 1869 and depicts the Nativity, the Resurrection and the Ascension.

St Mary's Church, Edwinstowe

It is visited by tourists, who come to see the church where, according to legend, Robin Hood and Maid Marian were married.

St Mary's Church, Ellesmere

The east window in the south chapel, dating from 1883, is by Burlison and Grylls, and depicts Christ and saints.

St Mary's Church, Elsing

The brass memorial to Sir Hugh Hastings (died 1347), the largest of all English church brasses, has been described by Nikolaus Pevsner as “the most sumptuous of all English church brasses”.

St Mary's Church, Handsworth, Sheffield

It was founded by the Norman lord, William de Lovetot, or his father Richard, and the foundations were planned by William Paynel.

St Mary's Church, Ickworth

The 6th Marquess (d. 1985) was buried in Menton (France) for 25 years until the 8th Marquess had him reinterred in the vault of Ickworth Church in October 2010.

The ICCT was set up by the 8th Marquess of Bristol to safeguard the future of Ickworth Church.

St Mary's Church, Mellor

The stained glass includes windows in the south aisle by Capronnier dating from the later part of the 19th century, and a window in the north aisle dated 1928 by Whitefriars.

St Mary's Church, Roecliffe

The stone used in its construction came from an old Roman quarry in the grounds of Aldborough Manor, and from a quarry at Cotgrove, while the stone for the internal arch was from Burton Leonard.

St Mary's Church, Walberton

The white slab shows Cook crushed under a fallen tree, watched by a laughing skeleton to the left, a hat-wearing man (who is holding an axe) and Father Time (carrying his traditional scythe and hourglass) to the right, and a company of trumpet-playing angels above.

St Mary's College, Wellington

Part of the land on which the school is situated was donated by Lord Petre, the 11th Baron Petre (1793-1850), who was a director of the New Zealand Company and whose family seat Thorndon Hall in Essex was an important centre of Catholic Recusancy from the time of Queen Elizabeth I.

St Mary's Convent High School, Hyderabad

: For a history of the parent school, see History of St Bonaventure's High School

St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Monmouth

From 1835 to 1851 the Roman Catholic minister in Monmouth was Thomas Burgess who went on to be the Bishop of Clifton.

St Paul's Church, Camden Square

It and its parish are part of the St Pancras team of parishes, which also includes St Pancras Old Church, St Michael's Church, Camden Town, and St Mary's Church, Somers Town.

Substitute teacher

The remaining three starred Treat Williams, and were The Substitute 2: School's Out, The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All, and The Substitute: Failure Is Not an Option.

William Croone

He was born in London on 15 September 1633, and admitted to Merchant Taylors' School on 11 December 1642.


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