Lucy Harrison was a teacher at Bedford College School, and later founder and then head of Gower Street School for Girls and then The Mount School, York.
18 Facts About Lucy Harrison
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Emma Lucy Harrison, known as Lucy, was born on 17 January 1844 in Birkenhead, England as the youngest of eight children of Daniel Harrison and his wife, Anna Botham of Uttoxeter, England.
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When Harrison was five years old, her family went to live at Springfield, Egremont.
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Lucy Harrison attended Bedford College for two years studying Latin, History, and English Literature which she later identified as the starting-point of her intellectual activities.
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Lucy Harrison noted a regret that she had not studied science and mathematics more extensively.
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In 1866 Lucy Harrison began teaching initially on a temporary and later permanent basis at Bedford College School, where she would teach Latin, English subjects, and Natural History.
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Lucy Harrison joined her sister Annie, who had been staying for some time in Philadelphia with their married sister, Mrs Margaret Yarnall, and they spent two months together.
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Lucy Harrison had now more scope for her originality of mind and was able to carry out successfully many plans she had evolved for the welfare of her pupils and the comfort of her staff.
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Lucy Harrison collected weekly rents, and in various ways came into personal touch with some of the London poor.
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Lucy Harrison was always to the fore in matters relating to education; she belonged in its early days to the School-mistresses' Association, and was one of the first members of the Teachers' Guild.
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Lucy Harrison was engaged in bringing out her book, Spenser for Home and School, which was published by Bentley in 1883.
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Lucy Harrison wrote several short plays for her pupils to act, and some years later she made a translation of Moliere for the Gower Street School.
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Lucy Harrison's thoughts turned to Wensleydale, the remote Yorkshire valley where her father was born.
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Lucy Harrison made many inquiries about a suitable plot of freehold land available for building purposes, and at length she found for sale on the Hawes Road a field of four acres.
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Lucy Harrison began her work at The Mount School in January 1890.
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Lucy Harrison was naturally shy and diffident, and it was a severe ordeal to find herself suddenly set down amongst a crowd of strangers with a perplexing number of new duties and a heavy weight of responsibility.
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Lucy Harrison took keen interest in the plans for an extensive new wing which was finished the year after she left the School.
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Lucy Harrison died on 15 May 1915 and was buried in the Friends Burial Ground at Bainbridge.