On 28 July 1896, Bishop was born at The Glen, Oxford Road, Moseley, Kings Norton, Worcestershire,[1] Birmingham.
[2] She was the second of three children to the lacquer manufacturer and silver plating business owner Charles Benjamin Bishop and his wife, Amy Stewart, née Tindall.
[4] She frequently contributed to the college's dramatic productions and she gained a third-class degree in 1918 after suffering from illness during her final examinations.
[5] In 1935, Bishop accepted the invitation to become head teacher of the established, fee-paying Godolphin and Latymer School for Girls in Hammersmith, West London.
Bishop opted to evacuate the whole school to Newbury, Berkshire in September 1939 due to the threat of war.
[1] Bishop was a member of the government working party that reported to the Ministry of Education in 1949 with wide recommendations seeking the recruitment of more women into the profession of teaching.
[1] She was chairman of the Association of Headmistresses from 1951 to 1952, delivering keynote speeches to the annual conferences that reflected her educational beliefs.
She argued against the Labour Party's plants to implement a comprehensive education system in 1965 and defended grammar schools and governing body's independence.
[13] A bromide print of Bishop taken by the photographer Walter Bird in February 1963 is held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.