List of Masters of Derby School

Arms of Derby School

This is a list of the Headmasters and masters of Derby School, England.

[edit] List of Headmasters

Rev. Thomas Cantrell MA, born 1649, died 1698, headmaster^[1]
Rev. Anthony Blackwall MA (Cantab.), born 1672, died 1730, headmaster 1697-1722^[1]
Rev. Thomas Manlove MA (Cantab.), born 1729, died 1 February 1802, headmaster 1761-1774^[1]
Rev. Anthony Clarkson MA (Cantab.), born 1748, died 1819, headmaster 1774-1793^[1]
Rev. James Bligh, born 16 May 1760, died 18 August 1834, headmaster, cousin of William Bligh of the Bounty^[1]
Dr William Fletcher, headmaster 1834-1843^[1]
Dr Leary, headmaster 1858-1865^[1]
Rev. Walter Clark BD, born 1838, died April 12, 1889, headmaster 1865-1889 ^[2]
James R. Sterndale Bennett, born 1841, died 1928, headmaster from 1889^[3]
Percy Kitto Tollit MA (Oxon.), headmaster 1898-1906^[4]
Mr Constable, headmaster in the early 20th century
Rev. Angus Clifton Knight MA (Oxon.), born 1873, died 16 April 1931, headmaster 1909-1931^[5]
Thomas John Pinches York MA (Cantab.), born 1 August 1898, died 25 May 1970, headmaster 1931-42 (previously at Bedford School, later Headmaster of the Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby, 1942-1964, and President of the Headmasters' Association, 1950)^[6]^[7]
Leslie Bradley MA (Oxon.), born 1902, died 2004, previously a Maths master at King Edward VII School, Sheffield, headmaster 1942-1961 ^[8]
Norman Elliott, headmaster 1961-1979
Brian Seager, headmaster 1979-1989^[9]

John Meade Falkner, novelist and poet
Rev. Robert de Courcy Laffan (Senior Classical Master, 1880-1884), principal of Cheltenham College, member of the International Olympic Committee
H. Marmaduke Hewitt (assistant Classical Master, 1867 to 1870), author of A Manual of Our Mother Tongue
Rev. Henry Judge Hose (Maths master, 1867-1874), mathematician ^[10]

Notable masters in the last years at St Helen's House (1945-1966) and at Littleover (1966-1989) included:

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g The Derby School Register, 1570-1901, ed. Benjamin Tacchella (London, 1902)
^ Rev. Walter Clark, BD, headmaster of Derby School, obituary by J. Cook Wilson in The Classical Review, vol. 3, no. 6 (June 1889), pp. 281-282
^ The Times: Derby School 17 May 1889, page 9
^ Tollit, Percy Kitto, in Who Was Who 1897-2006 online, retrieved August 14 2007 from Tollit, Percy Kitto
^ Knight, Rev. Angus Clifton, in Who Was Who 1897-2006 online, retrieved August 14 2007 from Knight, Rev. Angus Clifton
^ York, Thomas John Pinches, in Who Was Who 1897-2006 online, retrieved August 14 2007 from York, Thomas John Pinches
^ The Times: New Headmaster of Derby School 24 June 1931, page 21
^ Old Edwardians
^ Old Derbeians Newsletter for September 2007 online at oldderbeians.org (accessed 28 February 2008)
^ Biography of H. J. Hose

Distinguished Alumni of Derby School by J. M. J. Fletcher (Derby Reporter, 1872)
Derby School: a Short History by George Percy Gollin