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List of masters of Gresham's School

This is a list of the Masters (later Headmasters) and Ushers (later Second Masters) of Gresham's School, Holt.

Masters, 1562–1900

  • 1571: Master Robinson
  • 1574–1582: Master Harrison
  • 1585–1602: Christopher Williams
  • 1602–1605: Rev. Richard Snoden MA
  • 1605–1606: Rev. Francis Catlyn MA
  • 1606–1639: Thomas Tallis MA
  • 1639–1640: Rev. Nathaniel Gill
  • 1640: Thomas Tallis (again)
  • 1640–1644: Sir Thomas Witherley
  • 1644–1646: John Fenn
  • 1646–1659: Rev. Francis Wright MA, fellow of Merton College, Oxford
  • 1659–1660: Rev. William Hickes MA, previously Master of Oundle
  • 1661–1665: Rev. Henry Mazey MA, Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge
  • 1665–1667: Rev. John Goodman (acting Master)
  • 1667–1692: Rev. Thomas Bainbridge MA
  • 1692–1697: Rev. William Reynolds MA
  • 1697–1702: Edward Reynolds
  • 1702–1715: Rev. William Reynolds MA
  • 1715–1729: Rev. David Duncombe MA (d. 1729)
  • 1730–1760: John Holmes - writer of textbooks on grammar, rhetoric and astronomy
  • 1760: John Knox
  • 1760–1787: James Smith
  • 1787–1806: Thomas Atkins
  • 1806–1807: Rev. Mr Babington (acting Master)
  • 1807–1809: Thomas Atkins (again)
  • 1809–1857: Rev. Benjamin Pulleyne, or Pullan MA, fellow of Clare College, Cambridge
  • 1858–1867: Rev. Charles Allen Elton MA BD, fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
  • 1867–1900: Rev. Reginald Jolliffe Roberts MA

Headmasters, 1900 to date

Ushers

  • 1602–1606: Nicholas Stephenson
  • ? to 1621: John Watson
  • 1627–1632: Thomas Cooper
  • 1632–1638: Nicholas Davie
  • 1638: Thomas Cooper (again)
  • 1638–1639: Henry Luce
  • 1640: Henry Luce (again)
  • 1640–1643: Timothy Cutler
  • 1643–1644: Thomas Cooper (again) - hanged in 1650 as a Royalist rebel
  • 1658–1660: Henry Mazy
  • 1661–1665: John Goodman
  • 1689–1692: Thomas Kellway
  • 1692: William Chambers
  • 1692–1695: Thomas Garrett
  • 1695: William Rowland
  • 1696–1697: Thomas Turner
  • 1697–1704: Thomas Plumstead
  • 1705–1708: John Reynolds
  • 1708: John Fox
  • 1708–1713: William Selth
  • 1713–1714: John Spurling
  • 1714–1715: William Chaplyn
  • c. 1718: John Brooke
  • c. 1725: John Holmes
  • 1729: Edward Read
  • 1770s: Christopher Stangroom
  • 1796–1801: David Kinnebrook
  • 1810–1811: Reverend Robert Davies
  • 1811–1813: Peter Barney
  • 1813–1821: Daniel Carr
  • 1821: James Sturley
  • 1821–1828: Thomas Beckwith
  • 1828–1843: William Robert Taylor
  • 1843–1851: John Slann (first Second Master)

Thomas Beckwith used the title "undermaster" in 1821.

Second masters

  • 1843–1851: John Slann (last Usher)
  • 1851: William Allen Rudkin
  • 1851–1857: John Hubbert Kent
  • 1858–1860: J. Rodney Phillips
  • 1860: Berney Wodehouse Raven
  • 1860–1862: Charles Frederick Furbank
  • 1862–1863: Frederick Roy Dowson
  • 1863–1864: George W. Anstiss
  • 1864–1865: Henry David Jones
  • 1865–1866: William Henry Hooper
  • 1866–1867: Matthew Walter Tunnicliffe
  • 1867: William Remington Backhouse
  • 1867: John Robinson Wells
  • 1867–1869: Robert Stokes
  • 1869–1871: Robert Campbell Conolly
  • 1871–1872: John Lowndes>
  • 1872–1880: Stephen Bousfield
  • 1881–1900: John Henry Howell
  • 1900–1907: John Goodrich Wemyss Woods
  • 1907–1919: James Ronald Eccles, later headmaster
  • 1919–1928: John Chambré Miller
  • 1928–1942: Joseph Foster
  • 1942–1963: A. Bruce Douglas
  • 1963–1970: Bernard Sankey
  • 1970–1977: Paul V. A. Colombé
  • 1977–1985: John Coleridge
  • 1985–2001: Richard N. K. Copas

Deputy heads (Pastoral)

  • 2001–2006: S. Smart
  • 2006–2016: N. C. Flower
  • 2016–2020: W.A.M. Chuter
  • 2020-present: E. Alexander

Deputy Heads (Academic)

  • 2001–2010: N. White
  • 2010–2013: D. Miles
  • 2013–2016 : S. Kinder
  • 2016–2023: T.P. Hipperson
  • 2024-present: D. Chart-Boyles

Chaplains

  • 1900–1901: R. L. Langford
  • 1901–1908: E. E. M. Benson
  • 1908–1930: Francis George Elwes Field, MA (Cantab.), previously headmaster of Truro Grammar School
  • 1930–1932: J. W. Reynolds
  • 1932–1946: Edward Francis Habershon
  • 1946–1950: Charles L. S. Linnell
  • 1950–1959: Wilfred Andrews
  • 1959–1974: Douglas C. Argyle, died 2012
  • 1974–1975: Percival Hallewell Rogers (previously headmaster of Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, 1954–1973)
  • 1975–1983 T. Ray Bowen
  • 1983–1991: Alan Wadge, later Rector of Sparsholt
  • 1991–1992: Richard Buckner (died in office)
  • 1992 (acting): Patrick Rix
  • 1992–2000: Robin N. Myerscough
  • 2001–2020: Bryan R. Roberts
  • 2020– : Jack Branford

Headmasters of the Junior School

  • 1954–1969: John B. Williams
  • 1969–1979: Michael Hughes
  • 1979–1984: Neville Jones

The Junior School was reorganized into the Preparatory School and the Pre-Preparatory School in 1984.

Headmasters of the Preparatory School

  • 1984–2003: Tony Cuff
  • 2003–2018: James Quick
  • 2018-date: Catherine Braithwaite

Heads of the Pre-Preparatory School

  • 1984–1991: Penelope Moore
  • 1991–1997: Lesley Gillick
  • 1997–2002: Daphne Dawson-Smith
  • 2002–2017: Janette Davidson
  • 2017–present: Sarah Hollingsworth

Housemasters and staff

Boys' houses
Girls' houses

Notable masters

See also

References