Jane Agnes Chessar (1835, in

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– 3 September 1880, in

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) was a British

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and

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Life

Educated at private schools in Edinburgh, Chessar travelled to

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in 1851 to train as a teacher. Early in 1852 she took charge of a class at the Home and Colonial Training College, raising the reputation of the college over the next fifteen years. After ill-health forced her to resign from this position in 1866, she occupied her time giving lectures and private tuition. She was elected a member of the

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in 1873, but did not seek re-election after forced to leave England for a warmer climate in 1875. Her death was caused by cerebral apoplexy, while she was in Brussels for an educational congress. Chessar edited

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's ''Physical Geography'' and William Hughes's ''Physical Geography''. She was a prolific contributor to '' The Queen'' and other newspapers.

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*Jane Martin & Joyce Goodman, ''Women and education, 1800-1980'', Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 1835 births 1880 deaths Schoolteachers from Edinburgh Members of the London School Board Alumni of the Home and Colonial Training College {{edu-bio-stub