Phoebe Stanton (teacher)
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Phoebe Pittar Stanton (c. 1844 – January 1940) was a teacher and co-principal of a private boarding school "Blanche Villa" in Glenelg, South Australia.
History
Stanton was a daughter of Anglican clergyman Rev. Lionel William Stanton (died 1897), who emigrated to South Australia in 1864 aboard the steamer Eastern Empire. He served as rector of St Mary's Church, Kooringa (a suburb of Burra) 1864–1874 and also operated a small school there.
He returned to England, where he was made rector of Coombe Keynes, Dorset, England.
Some time around 1870, his wife Anna Thipps Stanton founded "Blanche Villa" in a huge 16-roomed residence on Glenelg's Broadway, running the school with the aid of her eldest daughters, Esther, who died in 1918 and is remembered by a stained glass window in St Peter's Church, Glenelg, Phoebe, and Annie, who died in England in 1922. At first it was strictly a boarding school for girls, who beside the "three 'R's" were taught Latin and French, painting and embroidery. It later became a preparatory school for boys under 12 years of age.
The school closed sometime around 1910, but at least one person, Thorburn Brailsford Robertson, continued to board with Miss Stanton, in his case until he graduated from university in 1905.
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