Amy Badley

Amy Garrett Badley (née Mary Amy Garrett; 27 May 1862 – 30 October 1956) was an English educator, suffragist, co-founder of Bedales School, and a vice president of the National Council for Equal Citizenship.

Early life Mary Amy Garrett was born on 27 May 1862, the daughter of Mary Gray and Reverend John Fisher Garrett, In later life she would speak of being "proud to be a member of a family many of whose members had worked for the same great cause", adding that "she would have been ashamed if she had not tried to follow in their footsteps”.

Her mother, Mary Gray Garrett, died in 1872 at the age of 40; her father died six years later, in 1878. Her first teaching position was at Gateshead high school; Badley had been working at the progressive Abbotsholme School, run by Cecil Reddie, and despite sharing Reddie's philosophy of education he found him challenging. The couple began to discuss the founding of a school together.