Atholl

Named for Katharine Stewart-Murray, the Duchess of Atholl DBE, LLD, MP (1874-1960) who officially opened the new school site in 1926 in her position as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education. She was one of the first women MPs, and the first woman to serve in a Conservative Government, from 1924-1929. She was a Vice-President of the Girls Public Day School Trust from 1924 – 1960 and also composed music to accompany the poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson.

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