List of masters of Gresham's School
This is a list of the Masters (later Headmasters) and Ushers (later Second Masters and Deputy Heads) of Gresham's School, Holt.
Masters, 1562-1900
- 1560s: Master Robinson
- 1570s: Master Harrison
- 1584-1602: Christopher Williams
- 1602-1605: Reverend Richard Snoden
- 1605-1606: Reverend Francis Catlyn
- 1606-1639: John Tallis
- 1639-1640: Reverend Nathaniel Gill
- 1640: John Tallis (again)
- 1640-1644: Sir Thomas Witherley
- 1644-1646: John Fenn
- 1646-1659: Reverend Francis Wright
- 1659-1660: Reverend William Hicks
- 1660-1665: Reverend Henry Mazy
- 1665-1667: Reverend John Goodman (acting Master)
- 1667-1692: Reverend Thomas Bainbridge
- 1692-1716: Reverend William Reynolds
- 1716-1729: Reverend David Duncombe (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
Headmasters, 1900 to date
- 1900-1919: George Howson, MA - 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
- 1991-2001: John Arkell, MA (Cantab.)
- 2001 to date: Antony R. Clark, MA (Cantab.) - formerly head of St Andrew's, South Africa
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
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)