Queenwood Ladies' College was a private school

Private school

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 for girls, opened on a hill

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 overlooking the sea

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 in Eastbourne

Eastbourne

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, East Sussex

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, England. It was opened in 1871 by a Mrs Lawrance, the mother of Miss Grace Lawrance, founder of Queenwood School for Girls

Queenwood School for Girls

Queenwood School for Girls is an independent, non-denominational, Christian day school, located in the suburb of Mosman, on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

, Sydney. At this time the town was just beginning a period of growth and prosperity and seeing the arrival of many other private schools, thanks to its reputation for health, enhanced by bracing air and sea breezes.

Notable former pupils

• Martita Hunt
  Martita Hunt
  Martita Hunt was an English theatre and film actress.-Early life:Hunt was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 30 January 1900 to British parents Alfred and Marta Hunt...
  
  , actress