Jane Agnes Chessar

Jane Agnes Chessar (1835, Edinburgh – 3 September 1880, Brussels) was a British teacher and educationalist.

Life

Educated at private schools in Edinburgh, Chessar travelled to London 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 this position in 1866, she occupied her time giving lectures and private tuition. She was elected a member of the London School Board 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.[1]

Chessar edited Mary Somerville's Physical Geography and William Hughes's Physical Geography. She was a prolific contributor to The Queen and other newspapers.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Hunt 1887.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Hunt, William (1887). "Chessar, Jane Agnes". In Stephen, Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography. 10. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 200.

Sources

  • Jane Martin & Joyce Goodman, Women and education, 1800-1980, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. ISBN 0-333-94721-5


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