Marian Le Cappellain

Marian Le Cappellain (1851–1923) was a British teacher who established one of the first secondary schools available for girls' education in Costa Rica.

Biography Marian Le Cappellain was born in 1851 in Jersey. She studied in Guernsey and then went to England and studied the classics at York. In 1872, she and her sister, Ada, came to Costa Rica to work as governesses in the employ of the doctor José María Montealegre, after having left a similar post for Rafael Zaldívar, a Salvadoran politician who would later become president of El Salvador. She returned and began work organizing the institution, including hiring teachers, designing classes, and even teaching both English and science courses. She designed an organization which was open to all social classes, races and religions and later added a kindergarten annex to the secondary school.