Anne Jellicoe, née Anne Mullin (1823-1880) was a noted Irish

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 educationalist best known for the founding of the prestigious Alexandra College

Alexandra College

Alexandra College is a private, single-sex school located in Milltown, Dublin, Ireland. It serves girls from ages 4 to 19 as boarding or day pupils. The school is one of the most prestigious in Ireland and ranks highly in Leaving Certificate results tables...

, which became a force in women's education under her management.

She was born at Mountmellick

Mountmellick

Other than that its a 15th-century settlement on the narrow Owenass river with an encampment on its banks at Irishtown. Overlooking this valley with its trees and wildlife was a small church called Kilmongan which was closed by the Penal Laws in 1640...

, County Laois

County Laois

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, the daughter of a Quaker schoolmaster. She married John Jellicoe, a flour miller

Miller

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 in 1846 and moved to Clara

Clara

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, County Offaly

County Offaly

County Offaly is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Midlands Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the ancient Kingdom of Uí Failghe and was formerly known as King's County until the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922. Offaly County Council is...

 two years later. There she set up an embroidery

Embroidery

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 and lace

Lace

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 school to provide employment for young girls. The Jellicoes moved to Dublin in 1858 where she helped revive Cole Alley Infant School for poor children of all creeds run by the Quakers. She prepared a paper on working conditions for young factory girls in Dublin in 1861 and a year later visited the women's prison at Mountjoy. She founded the first employment society for women in Ireland known as the Queen's Institute to provide adult technical training classes for women. This led her to realise that women must be educated before they could be trained. In 1866, with the help of Archbishop

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 Chenevix Trench, she founded Alexandra College, Dublin, the first women's college in Ireland to aim at a university type education. The Governess Association of Ireland followed in 1869 and Alexandra School was founded in 1873.