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Dorothy Irene Wilkinson
Dorothy Irene Wilkinson (22 May, 1883 – 18 September, 1947) was a United Kingdom-born Australian headmistress of Sydney Church of England Girls Grammar School. Life Wilkinson was born in the English village of Up Holland. Her mother was Florence (born Shann) and her father, Reverend Christopher George Wilkinson, was to become the headmaster of Launceston Church Grammar School in Tasmania. Her father was invited to move to Tasmania by Henry Montgomery (bishop), Bishop Henry Montgomery in 1899 - where he collected ancient stone tools. She was brought up there but she returned to England for her final school at the Clergy Daughters' School in Westmorland in 1896. The school had been the basis of the school in Charlotte Bronte's ''Jane Eyre'' some years before. Wilkinson returned to Tasmania and she did some teaching at her father's school. She qualified as a teacher at the University of Melbourne in 1912. In the following year she gained a degree in history. file:SCEGGS1944.jpg, left ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Up Holland
Up Holland (or Upholland) is a village in Skelmersdale and is a civil parishes in England, civil parish in the West Lancashire district, in the county of Lancashire, England, west of Wigan. The population at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census was 7,376. Geography The village is on a small hill 89m above sea level that rises above the West Lancashire Coastal Plain. There are views towards St Helens, Merseyside, St Helens and Liverpool in the south west, Ormskirk and Southport in the north-west and towards Wigan, Manchester and on to the High Peak, Derbyshire, High Peak of Derbyshire in the east. The parish includes the Pimbo industrial estate. Etymology The place-name is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as ''Hoiland''. It appears as ''Upholand'' in a Lancashire Inquest of 1226. This is from the Old English , meaning 'land on or by a hoe or spur of a hill'. The name Up Holland differentiates it from another place locally called Downholland, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |