About Beatrice Lilias Rennie
Lived 1893 – 1971 (aged 77–78). Beatrice Lilias Rennie was an Australian head teacher.
Beatrice Lilias Rennie (21 September 1893 – 4 September 1971) was an Australian co-founder and the headmistress of Queenwood School for Girls in Sydney.
Life Rennie was born in 1893 in Dubbo. Her parents were Lilias (born Millar) and a draughtsman named Charles Edward Rennie. They had both been born in Australia. She was their sixth child and they had two more. In time her family moved to Sydney ending up in the suburb of Mosman. She graduated from the University of Sydney in 1916.
In 1918, she first met Grace Lawrence who was the headmistress of the Glennie Memorial School in Queensland. Rennie was teaching P.E, and humanities as an assistant headmistress. They got on well and went on a trip together in 1921 to Europe. They went to see leading schools for girls together. Rennie continued to teach at the school, looking after the library and the school magazine.
Rennie shared her leadership role with Violet Medway in 1942.
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Who was Beatrice Lilias Rennie?
(1893-1971) headmistress
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Beatrice Lilias Rennie was born on 21 September 1893 in Dubbo.
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Beatrice Lilias Rennie died in 1971 in Mosman.
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Beatrice Lilias Rennie was a head teacher.
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Beatrice Lilias Rennie was Australian.
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