Many members of the College Council desired change and enlargement. One wrote: ‘I cannot think it right to leave Miss Beale or any other Lady Principal to the mercies of a purely local Council ... for I think with such a Council no good Lady Principal could long agree.’ Among those whom Miss Beale consulted at this crisis, and from whom she received sympathy, were Dr. Jex-Blake, then head-master of Rugby, and Sir Joshua Fitch, who later on became a member of the Council. The desired reform was brought about in 1875, when at a general meeting in March the relative powers of the proprietors, Council, and Principal were more clearly defined and the number of the governing body increased. The Council then elected consisted of the following:— LIFE MEMBERS The Right Hon. Earl Granville, K.G., D.C.L., F.R.S., Chancellor of the University of London. The Right Hon. Lord Lyttelton. The Right Hon. Sir Edward Ryan, M.A., F.R.S. J. Storrar, Esq., M.D., Chairman of Convocation of the University of London. The Rev. H. Walford Bellairs, Rector of Nuneaton. The Rev. Canon Barry, Principal of King’s College, London. Miss Buss, Principal of the North London Collegiate School for Girls. W. Dunn, Esq., Cheltenham. H. Verrall, Esq., Brighton. T. Marriott, Esq., Victoria Street, Westminster. S. S. Johnson, Esq., Nottingham. ORDINARY MEMBERS The Rev. Herbert Kynaston, Principal of the Cheltenham College. The Rev. W. Wilberforce Gedge, Malvern Wells. The Rev. Dr. Morton Brown, Cheltenham. E. T. Wilson, Esq., M.B. (Oxon.), Cheltenham. General M’Causland, Cheltenham. F. D. Longe, Esq., Cheltenham. John Middleton, Esq., Cheltenham. T. Morley Rooke, Esq., M.D. (London), Cheltenham. Miss Mary Gurney, London. Miss Lucy March Phillipps, Cheltenham. Mrs. James Owen, Cheltenham. Miss Catherine Winkworth, Clifton. Much was gained by this remodelling, but the period of uneasy development was not yet over. One annual meeting which discussed the constitution of the College appears in private notes made by the Principal for her _History_ as ‘Bear Garden.’ Reorganisation was seen to be essential. The College, founded in 1853 as a voluntary association, had by 1880 grown far beyond the calculations of its founders. Besides the school buildings and the Lady Principal’s house, it possessed Fauconberg House and the sanatorium at Leckhampton. To give it a safe legal foundation it was therefore registered ‘with limited liability’ under the Companies’ Acts of 1862 and 1867, without the addition of the word ‘limited’ to its name. New regulations concerning the holding of shares and property—the appointment of officers—were also made.