Maria Elise Allman Marchant

Maria Elise Allman Marchant, also known as Ella Allman-Marchant (28 October 1869–15 November 1919) was a New Zealand school principal.

[1] She attended Wellington Girls' High School, where she was dux in 1887.

While working full-time as a teacher in Wellington she studied off-campus through Canterbury College and graduated BA in 1892 and MA in 1894.

[2] She served as principal of Otago Girls' High School from 1895 to 1911.

She worked in that field in Christchurch and was the acting headmistress of St John's Girls' School in Invercargill at the time of her sudden death in November 1919.