St. Anne's Diocesan College is a private girls' boarding school situated in the small town of Hilton in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands of South Africa. St. Anne's Diocesans College was founded by Bishop Macrorie and Miss Creswell in 1877 in the Manse Building in Pietermaritzburg Street in Pietermaritzburg. In 1878 the school was moved to the corner of Loop Street and Pine Street in Pietermartzburg. The move to its current location in the village of Hilton which lies above Pietermaritzburg was done in 1904. In 1977 the tradition to wear white to the Matric Ball was started. The colour white was chosen as it symbolises purity and virginity. 1877-1879 Miss Creswell (1st lady warden) 1879-1889 Miss Usherwood 1890-1903 Miss Marianne Browne ????-1973 Miss E. M. Beer (who left the school on principle when the Board of Governors accepted a government grant) 1973-1974 Mrs Morgan (Last lady warden) 1975-1986 Mr Cheetham (1st Head master) 1987-1997 Mr McQuade 1998-2009 Mr David Wilkinson 2010- Mr David Arguile Today St. Anne's has approximately 480 pupils from grade 8 to grade 12 of which ninety percent board.