Matilda Sharpe

Matilda Sharpe (4 April 1830 – 30 April 1916)[1] was a British writer, teacher, educational reformer and painter.

[2] She was a talented artist, exhibiting at the Royal Academy, but her vocation was teaching.

She was an inspiring teacher and the leading New South Wales politician, William Holman, attributed his success to her teaching.

[2] In Highgate in north London, she founded Channing House School[3] (after Robert Spears' idea) and a Unitarian Chapel in Despard Road.

She believed in education for all and taxing the rich to pay for it.