Caroline Rigg (26 August 1852 – 16 December 1929) was a British headmistress. She was the founding head of the

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Life

Rigg was born in Guernsey in 1852. She was the first child of Caroline and Dr James Harrison Rigg. Her father was a Wesleyan minister but in time he led Westminster Training College. Her father was keen for her to follow him into teaching. Rigg was the founding head of the

in 1877 after spending four years leading a Hammersmith board school. In 1883 she was invited to become a member of the

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(AHM) by its founder

Frances Buss Frances Mary Buss (16 August 1827 – 24 December 1894) was a British headmistress and a pioneer of girls' education. Life The daughter of Robert William Buss, a painter and etcher, and his wife, Frances Fleetwood, Buss was one of six of thei ...

Dorothy Brock Dame Madeline Dorothy Brock (18 November 1886 – 31 December 1969) was an English educationist. She served as Headmistress of the Mary Datchelor Girls' School, Camberwell, London from 1918 to 1950. She oversaw the evacuation of the school dur ...

was appointed to succeed her as the head of the Mary Datchelor school in 1918. Rigg died in

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in 1929 leaving a bequest to support girls who wanted to go to university.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rigg, Caroline 1852 births 1929 deaths Guernsey people Founders of English schools and colleges Women school principals and headteachers English women educators 19th-century British educators Heads of schools in England 20th-century British educators 20th-century British women educators