examinations and to enter universities. She became the founding president of the Association of Head Mistresses in 1874, a position she held until 1894, and was also involved in establishing the Teachers' Guild in 1883 and the Cambridge Training College (later Hughes Hall) for training teachers in 1885. In 1869 she became the first woman Fellow of the College of Preceptors, helping to establish the College's professorship of the science and art of education in 1872. Her election to a Fellowship of the College in 1873 was the only public recognition she ever received. She was also a member of the Council of the Teachers' Training and Registration Society. Buss was also a suffragist, participating in the Kensington Society, a woman's discussion society, and the London Suffrage Committee. She is buried in the churchyard of Theydon Bois in Essex. Legacy Her name is associated with that of Dorothea Beale in a satirical rhyme: Miss Buss and Miss Beale, Cupid's darts do not feel. How different from us, Miss Beale and Miss Buss. In the spring of each year North London Collegiate School, North London Collegiate School Jeju (in South Korea) and Camden School for Girls all hold Founder's Day to commemorate Frances Mary Buss and her legacy. Pupils, staff and guests each carry a daffodil in memory of Miss Buss's favourite flower. The educational values that Frances Mary Buss taught at the North London Collegiate School became the model for many schools throughout the UK and overseas. This included Bournemouth's Talbot Heath School started by Mary Broad and Pretoria High School for Girls, founded in South Africa by Edith Aitken, a former pupil of Miss Buss. Notes Further reading Richardson, Joanna. "The Great Revolution: Women's Education in Victorian Times." History Today (1974) 24#6 pp 420-427. External links School Website NLCS Archives Spartacus: Frances Buss Association of Head Mistresses AIM25: Frances Mary Buss and family Feminist studies scholars English suffragists 1827 births 1894 deaths Headmistresses of North London Collegiate School People educated at Queen's College, London 19th-century English educators 19th-century women educators