Newspaper article on Edith Jeacock

This article by the Wiltshire Gazette and Herald, is dated Thurs Feb 22, 1979. It features Edith Jeacock, from Liverpool who was a competant and repected school teacher. She came to live at Shrivenham with her husband in the early 1950s and joined Bourton School teaching staff in 1956. With her interest in history she became the Secretary of the Shrivenham Historical Society. It mentions some of the research that she was involved with at the time of writing. We also have a letter written by Edith Jeacock in 1978 to Shrivenham Parish Council concerning her historical researches.

After the death of her husband, Edith left Shrivenham and moved back up to the Liverpool area where she originally came from and passed away sometime after. 

To see her research on Shrivenham Schooling please see Listing N394

To read her booklet as a PDF file on the history of Uffington School please go HERE

(The file containing Edith Jeacock's original research for Uffington School is now with the Uffington Museum Archive) 

To read more information on her application and resignation as a teacher at Bourton School please see Listing No N1405 which was extracted from St James papers