Miss_Ironside's_School
Miss Ironside's School
School in London, United Kingdom
Miss Ironside's School (also called Miss Ironside's Day School and Miss Ironside's School For Girls) was a school at 2 Elvaston Place, in Kensington.[1] The journalist John Walsh, writing in The Daily Telegraph, called it "legendary".[2]
Notable alumnae included:
- Salimah Aga Khan (née Sarah Frances Croker Poole), former fashion model and an ex-wife of the IV Aga Khan Prince Karim Aga Khan[citation needed]
- Jane Birkin, singer and actor[2][3]
- Sheila and Ellen-Craig Crosland, daughters of Susan Crosland, journalist, and step-daughters of Tony Crosland, Labour Education Minister who started the comprehensive school movement in the UK[4]
- Rose Dugdale, a militant in the Irish republican organisation and the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA)[3][5]
- Jane Fawcett, a World War II codebreaker, singer, and heritage preservationist[6][7]
- Teresa Hayter, writer and activist[citation needed]
- Sarah Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham (née Boyd-Carpenter), economist, journalist, and politician[3]
- Virginia Ironside, journalist, agony aunt and writer, whose great-aunt was headmistress[3]
- Tracy Reed, actor[3]
- Jan Struther, writer[3]