List of Masters of Gresham's School
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This is a list of the Masters (later Headmasters) and Ushers (later Second Masters) of Gresham's School, Holt.
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[edit] Masters, 1562-1900
- 1560s: Master Robinson
- 1570s: Master Harrison
- 1584-1602: Christopher Williams
- 1602-1605: Reverend Richard Snoden MA (Cantab.)
- 1605-1606: Reverend Francis Catlyn MA (Cantab.)
- 1606-1639: John Tallis MA (Cantab.)
- 1639-1640: Reverend Nathaniel Gill
- 1640: John Tallis MA (Cantab.) (again)
- 1640-1644: Sir Thomas Witherley
- 1644-1646: John Fenn
- 1646-1659: Reverend Francis Wright MA (Oxon.), fellow of Merton College, Oxford
- 1659-1660: Reverend William Hickes MA (Cantab.), previously Master of Oundle
- 1660-1665: Reverend Henry Mazy MA (Cantab.)
- 1665-1667: Reverend John Goodman (acting Master)
- 1667-1692: Reverend Thomas Bainbridge MA (Cantab.)
- 1692-1716: Reverend William Reynolds MA (Oxon.)
- 1716-1729: Reverend David Duncombe MA (St Andrew's) (d. 1729)
- 1730-1760: John Holmes - writer on education
- 1760: John Knox
- 1760-1787: James Smith
- 1787-1806: Thomas Atkins
- 1806-1807: Reverend Mr Babington (acting Master)
- 1807-1809: Thomas Atkins (again)
- 1809-1857: Reverend Benjamin Pullan, alias Pulleyne, MA (Cantab.), fellow of Clare College, Cambridge
- 1858-1867: Reverend Charles Elton, MA (Cantab.), fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
- 1867-1900: Reverend Reginald Jolliffe Roberts, MA (Cantab.)
[edit] Headmasters, 1900 to date
- 1900-1919: George Howson, MA (Oxon.) - reforming headmaster
- 1919-1935: James R. Eccles, MA (Cantab.)
- 1935-1944: Philip Newell, MA (Cantab.)
- 1944-1955: Martin J. Olivier, MA
- 1955-1982: Logie Bruce Lockhart, MA (Cantab.) - international rugby footballer
- 1982-1985: Dr Tim Woods, DPhil (Oxon.) - Rhodes Scholar
- 1985-1991: Hugh Wright, MA - Chairman of the HMC
- 1991-2001: John Arkell, MA (Cantab.)
- 2001 to date: Antony R. Clark, MA (Cantab.) - formerly head of St Andrew's, South Africa
[edit] Ushers
- 1602-1606: Nicholas Stephenson
- to 1621: Reverend John Watson
- 1627-1632: Reverend Thomas Cooper
- 1632-1638: Nicholas Davie
- 1638: Reverend Thomas Cooper (again)
- 1638-1639: Henry Luce
- 1640: Henry Luce (again)
- 1640-1643: Timothy Cutler
- 1643-1644: Reverend Thomas Cooper (again) - hanged in 1650 as a Royalist rebel
- 1658-1660: Reverend Henry Mazy
- 1661-1665: Reverend 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: Reverend Thomas Beckwith
- 1828-1843: Reverend William Robert Taylor
- 1843-1851: John Slann (first Second Master)
[edit] 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. Antiss
- 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
- 1919-1928: John Chambré Miller
- 1928-1942: Joseph Foster
- 1942-1963: Bruce Douglas
- 1963-1970: Bernard Sankey
- 1970-1977: Paul V.A. Colombé
- 1977-1985: John Coleridge
- 1985-2001: Richard N.K. Copas
[edit] Deputy Heads
- 2001 to date: Susan Smart
[edit] Notable masters
- Logie Bruce Lockhart (headmaster) - Scotland rugby footballer
- Graeme Fife - writer, playwright and broadcaster
- Walter Greatorex - composer
- Dalziel Llewellyn Hammick - research chemist
- Patrick Thompson - Conservative Member of Parliament
[edit] References
- The History and Register of Gresham's School, 1555-1954 (Ipswich, 1955);
- I Will Plant Me a Tree: an Illustrated History of Gresham's School by S.G.G. Benson and Martin Crossley Evans (James & James, London, 2002)
