Old Girls

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Former pupils are referred to as Old Girls. Notable Old Girls include:

   
 
Laura Aikman

Actress
  Linda Bennett OBE

Fashion designer and entrepreneur
  Margaret Bent

Musicologist
 
Luciana Berger

Member of Parliament for Liverpool Wavertree
  Bidisha

Arts critic, broadcaster and author
  Florence Birchenough

Member of the first female Olympic Team (1922).
 
Margery Blackie

Homeopath to Queen Elizabeth II[1]
  Nica Burns OBE

Theatre Producer
  Mary Coules

One of the first female journalists for Reuters (1930s).
Mary left school in 1912. She was one of a very tiny handful (only three others) of professional female journalists working for Reuters during the 1930s. For a woman to hold such a position would have been very unusual.
  Muriel Dodwell

One of the first women actuaries (1919).
Muriel left school in 1914. She enrolled and passed the first part of the Institute of Actuaries profession examinations in 1919 (when the Institute first admitted women to do so). She worked for Prudential from 1918 until she retired in 1949 and qualified as a Fellow of the Institute in 1930 being the fifth woman to do so.
 
Vanessa Feltz

TV personality
  Charlotte Green

Radio Broadcaster
First Female voice of the classified football results
Charlotte left school in 1974. After reading English at the University of Kent, she worked for the BBC from 1978 until 2013 most notably as newsreader on Radio 4. In September 2013, she became the first female voice of the classified football results.
  Vera Houghton CBE

Campaigner
 
Talulah Riley

Actress
  Caroline Ryder

Writer
  Daphne Slater

Actress
  1. ^ "Margery Grace Blackie (1898–1981)". ODNB. Retrieved 28 March 2015.