Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Chessar, Jane Agnes
CHESSAR, JANE AGNES (1835–1880), teacher, was born in Edinburgh in 1835, and after attending private school and classes in that city went to London in 1851 in order to gain special training as a teacher. Early in the next year she took charge of a class in the Home and Colonial Training College. During the fifteen years she held this appointment she did much to raise the college to the highest place among such institutions by her skill as a teacher and by the moral influence she exercised over her pupils. In 1866 weakness of health obliged her to resign her position on the staff of the college, and she then employed her time in giving lectures and in private tuition. She was elected a member of the London School Board in 1873, and in that capacity did much useful work in connection with the health and domestic training of girls. In 1875 she was forced to leave England for a warmer climate, and did not seek re-election. Her death, which was caused by cerebral apoplexy, took place on 3 Sept. 1880 at Brussels, whither she had gone to assist at an educational congress, he edited Mrs. Somerville's 'Physical Geography' and Hughes's 'Physical Geography,' and wrote much for the 'Queen' and other newspapers.
[Educational Times, 1 Oct. 1880; Athenæum, 18 Sept. 1880.]
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.63
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