Eleanor Addison Phillips (2 December 1874 – 25 June 1952) was an English educationist and founder of the first UK Soroptimist movement, the Venture Club.

[1][2] In 1905, aged 30, she went to St Hugh's College, Oxford to study modern history; her teachers included Ernest Barker, A.L.

She initially resided at 1 Clifton Park Road until the beginning of the 1920s, when it was sold to fund construction of a new school wing.

In 1910, she organised the school's first Christmas concert, with Hubert Hunt, a tradition continued today.

[3] In 1925, she helped found an 'old girls' (Clifton High School alumni) branch in London.

She gave the pendant back, and it is worn by the Immediate Past President of the Soroptimist movement in Bristol.

She never married and had no children, but was an aunt; her brother (Francis Addison Phillips (1872-1902)) had a son, Francis Hugh Addison Phillips (1901-1980), who married Barbara Holmes (daughter of civil servant Maurice Gerald Holmes) in 1946.