Katherine Bathurst

Her forced resignation resulted in a "unique example" of a government report because it showed a large difference of opinion between a ministry and its servant.

She appears to have never obtained an educational qualification herself but she taught at Morley College for Working Men and Women and went to lectures for two years at the London School of Economics until 1897.

She was moved to Lambeth where her new supervisor Revd Charles D. Dupont noted that she could be "clever", "very dangerous" and she was "unsuitable as an inspector".

He was alarmed to see how she dealt with infant teaching in Cardiff and Barry noted that she also decided to complain to Sir George Kekewich about the inspector's task of marking teacher's exam papers.

[1] Reports on Children Under Five Years of Age in Public Elementary Schools (1905) by Women Inspectors of the Board of Education was published by HM Stationery Office in 1905.

[1] The report did remove the names of individuals but it contained Bathurst's findings that teaching was concentrating on reading, writing and arithmetic, books and blackboards, where "play" was much more important.

She described how four-year-old children would spend an hour a day doing needlework which she believed was only intended to benefit the school inspector.