Jane Chessar

Jane Agnes Chessar (1835, in Edinburgh – 3 September 1880, in Brussels) was a British teacher and educationalist.

Life

Educated at private schools in Edinburgh, Chessar travelled to London in 1851 to train as a teacher. Early in 1852 she took charge of a class at the Home and Colonial Training College, raising the reputation of the college over the next fifteen years. After ill-health forced her to resign from this position in 1866, she occupied her time giving lectures and private tuition. She was elected a member of the London School Board in 1873, but did not seek re-election after forced to leave England for a warmer climate in 1875. Her death was caused by cerebral apoplexy, while she was in Brussels for an educational congress.^[1]

Chessar edited Mary Somerville's Physical Geography and William Hughes's Physical Geography. She was a prolific contributor to The Queen and other newspapers.^[1]