Alice Mary Coleridge

[1] Edward Clarke Lowe married Alice's elder sister Harriet Duke Coleridge.

[1] Alice Coleridge, had been greatly influenced by the writer Anna Sewell and her godmother, Charlotte Mary Yonge.

Yonge's example and influence on her goddaughter are thought to have played a formative role in Coleridge's zeal for women's education, and so indirectly led to the establishment of Abbots Bromley School for Girls,[1] which survived until 2019.

He believed that university education should be open to women and with his friends eventually prevailed upon Woodard to give his blessing and use his enormous fund-raising skills for the foundation of the School of St. Anne at Abbots Bromley in 1874.

She was succeeded by Marcia Rice who was a head teacher there until 1931 and then went on to write a history of the school that Coleridge had founded.