ABSTRACT
The Leeds case was exceptional; there were many success stories as new endowed schools were set up and old schools reformed. There were cases too where private/proprietary schools received help from old endowments, two outstanding examples being Miss Buss's schools—the North London and the Camden—and Manchester High School. In 1870 Miss Buss's highly successful private school had been in existence for twenty years. From the mid-1860s she had considered putting the school, which was her personal property, into the hands of trustees. This was done in July 1870 and in the following year the Camden School was set up with much lower fees to provide education for girls of lower middle-class families up to the age of 16. There were in addition some scholarships to carry promising pupils from the Camden to the North London. The immediate problem was to acquire an endowment, particularly for the Camden with its low fees. Miss Buss tried very hard to raise money and found it extremely difficult. An especially galling blow was the discovery that £5,000 which had been raised for a girls' school in the City of London had instead been added on to £60,000 already raised for boys' education (A.E.Ridley 1895:93, 127–9).
