Qualla: The Buchan School https://qualla.com/the-buchan-school en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: The Buchan School https://qualla.com/the-buchan-school The Buchan School: Introduction https://qualla.com/the-buchan-school/ Lady Laura Buchan started a school for girls in Castletown in 1875 because she could. Her father, Colonel Mark Wilks, had spent his career in the East India Company and ended it as governor of St Helena during Napoleon's exile - a man who knew what it cost to keep an empire educated. The High School for Girls, as Lady Laura first called it, opened at a moment when the Victorian campaign to educate young women was finally translating itself into bricks and timetables across the British Isles. A century and a half later her school still exists, renamed for her, on the same small island, attached now to a boys' college that took longer than her own to learn that girls might profit from school as easily as boys.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/the-buchan-school-wp/gcse-the-buchan-school-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full The Buchan School: Lady Laura's Project https://qualla.com/the-buchan-school/ Castletown in 1875 was still the old capital of the Isle of Man, even though the political weight had been shifting steadily north to Douglas for years. King William's College, the boys' boarding school for sons of the Manx and English gentry, had been operating just outside the ...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/the-buchan-school-wp/gcse-the-buchan-school-lady-lauras-project.mp3 0:06 2 full The Buchan School: Westhill and the Walk Across Town https://qualla.com/the-buchan-school/ The school outgrew its first premises almost immediately and moved to a Victorian house called Westhill on Arbory Road, about a mile inland. As enrolment kept rising, the senior department - girls aged 11 to 18 - was eventually relocated again, this time to three terraced houses ...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/the-buchan-school-wp/gcse-the-buchan-school-westhill-and-the-walk-across-town.mp3 0:06 3 full The Buchan School: Norse Kings and a School Motto https://qualla.com/the-buchan-school/ The Buchan was reorganised around four houses, each named for one of the Norse-Gaelic kings who had ruled the Isle of Man between the 11th and 13th centuries: Magnus in green, Olaf in red, Lagman in blue, Godred in yellow. In the 1970s, when the boarding side of the school still ...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/the-buchan-school-wp/gcse-the-buchan-school-norse-kings-and-a-school-motto.mp3 0:06 4 full The Buchan School: Amalgamation and the Co-Ed Era https://qualla.com/the-buchan-school/ In 1991, after more than a century as an independent girls' school, The Buchan merged with King William's College and became its co-educational prep school. The merger reflected the realities of running independent education on a small island - keeping two parallel institutions f...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/the-buchan-school-wp/gcse-the-buchan-school-amalgamation-and-the-co-ed-era.mp3 0:06 5 full The Buchan School: The Pupils Who Went Furthest https://qualla.com/the-buchan-school/ Two former pupils stand out as far as the school's published record allows. Jennifer Kewley Draskau, a historian, linguist and political candidate, did important work on Manx Gaelic and the broader history of the Isle of Man - the kind of scholarship that keeps a small national c...

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