Mabel Clarisse Warburton

Mabel Clarisse Warburton MBE (1879–1961) was an English Christian missionary and educationalist. She founded the British High School, later called the Jerusalem Girls' College.

Biography She was born 22 June 1879 in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire. Her father had died before her birth and her mother died in childbirth, so she was brought up by her grandparents at Bradwell House near Wolverton, Buckinghamshire. Her brother died in an institution after being declared insane. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College 1895–1897. This school educated both Jewish and Muslim girls, with high academic standards, and Warburton was its headmistress from 1919 to 1926.

From 1926 to 1935 she was active in social work in Bethnal Green, London, and after the second world war she founded the Ahliyyah School for Girls in Amman. This charity later linked to the Abbeyfield Society, and two replacement buildings, later combined, keep her name as the "Warburton and Clarisse Lodge".

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