Frances Mary Buss (16 August 1827 – 24 December 1894) was a British headmistress and a pioneer of girls' education.

[3] Next she was sent to a similar school in Kentish Town which she remembered as simply consisting of children learning Murray's Grammar.

[4] Her father's career as an artist being at times unsuccessful, to help the family finances her mother set up a private school in Clarence Road, Kentish Town, in 1845, at which Frances assisted,[5] and which was based on the ideas of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi.

During 1848–9, she attended evening lectures at the newly opened Queen's College in Harley Street, London.

Pupils, staff and guests each carry a daffodil in memory of Miss Buss's favourite flower.