Assistant Masters ~ 1859 - 1986


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Years

Name

Subject / Notes

Nickname

Photo/Info

1859

Charles Oliver

One of the School's first three pupil teachers

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n/a

1860 - 1862

John Elliott

Later Sir John Elliott, KCIE, FRS
d 1908

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n/a

1863 - 1866

Edward Phillips

In charge of Lower School

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n/a

1864 - 1865

Charles Caleb Howard

Upper School

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n/a

1864 - 1865

Edward S. Cockton

Lower School
d 1904

?

n/a

1866

George Roberts

Upper School
d 1900

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n/a

1866 - 1869

William Denton Sumner

Lower School

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n/a

1866 - 1872

James Ewing

In charge of Lower School

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n/a

1866 - 1868

Charles Gilbert Brown

Upper School

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n/a

1869

Joseph Charles Winwright

Upper School

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n/a

1870 - 1915

Edward Mills, Mus. Bac (Oxon)

Second Master, Upper School 1870 - 1873; Middle School 1873 - 1886; 1887 - 1915, with a break 1893 - 1895, part time for Music

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n/a

1870

John Nickal

Lower School
d 1922

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n/a

1871 - 1875

Thomas W. Piper

Lower School; Elementary School 1872 - 1875
d 1897

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n/a

1874 - 1881

E. M. Boisseau

Middle School; Part time French

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n/a

1874 - 1875

W. Carron

Middle School

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n/a

1875

Thomas John Buckler Sandercock

Elementary School.

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n/a

1875

Mark Taylor

Middle School

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n/a

1875 - 1877

William J. Dickinson

Head Master of Elementary School

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n/a

1876 - 1879

Arthur Blackman

Elementary School

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n/a

1876 - 1883

Henry Charles Eaton Olliver

Middle School

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n/a

1878 - 1918

Edward Lewis James, FCS

Middle School. Chemistry; Second Master 1886 - 1918
d 1918

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n/a

1878 - 1881

William James Wintle (O. S.)

Elementary School, Middle School

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n/a

1879

James Joseph

Elementary School

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n/a

1880 - 1883

John Dickenson

Elementary School, Middle School

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n/a

1881 - 1890

Henry John Clarke

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n/a

1881 - 1929

Frank Clark Luckhurst (O. S.)

Art and English, Second Master 1919 - 1929

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n/a

1882

Alfred J. Diggins

?

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n/a

1882 - 1894

Gustave Brocher

French; Part time

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n/a

1883 - 1884

F. P. Bird

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n/a

1884 - 1885

Edward Samuel Cadley

?

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n/a

1886 - 1891

Herbert Edward Wilkins

Sixth Form

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n/a

1887

J. Lancaster

?

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n/a

1887 - 1888

T. Carey

?

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n/a

1888 - 1928

Isaac Jones

Mathematics
d 1949

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n/a

1890 - 1893

James Frederick Swainson

Junior Forms

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n/a

1890 - 1893
1894 - 1906

C. F. T. Zimmerman

German and French

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n/a

1891 - 1895

James Williams

Junior Forms

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n/a

1894 - 1897

J. E. Coombe

Commercial Subjects; Part time

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n/a

1894 - 1897

J. S. Malone

Script Shorthand; Part time

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n/a

1895 - 1899

Samuel Hoole, BA (Dublin)

Junior Forms

?

n/a

1895 - 1896

H. A. Lester, BA (Oxon)

Junior Forms; Maths and Science in Upper Forms

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n/a

1896 - 1901,
1903

Frank Lowman, BA (Dublin)

Junior Forms; Maths and Science in Upper Forms

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n/a

1899 - 1901

Fred Whitehouse, BA (Oxon)

Junior Forms

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n/a

1901 - 1902

Victor Bailey, BA (Cantab)

?

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n/a

1902 - 1905

Adolph Charles Louis Guthkelch

English and French
d 1916

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n/a

1902

T. H. White

Physics

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n/a

1902 - 1927

William John Brown

Junior Forms
d 1938

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n/a

1902 - 1914

William Palmer

Drill; Part time

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n/a

1903 - 1933

John Magee Shannon

Physics
d 1964

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n/a

1903

Alferd Ernest Moore

?

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n/a

1905 - 1909

John William Hunt

Junior Forms

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n/a

1906 - 1917

James Frank Wells

French

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n/a

1906 - 1907

Frederick James Stigant Whitmore, BA (Oxon)

English
d 1949

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n/a

1906 - 1940

William Henry Giles

Manual Training

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n/a

1907 - 1916

F.T Adkins, BA (Cantab)

English
d 1919

?

n/a

1907 - 1944

A. D. Barlow, BA (Lond)

Latin; Second Master 1929 - 1944
d 1958

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n/a

1909 - 1918

W. Thomas, BSc (Wales)

Geography

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n/a

1910 - 1918

A. R. McIvor, BSc (Lond)

Mathematics
d 1946

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n/a

1911 - 1955

F. T Smallwood, MA (Birmingham)

German; Second Master 1944 - 1955; Acting Head Master 1954 - 1955
d 1982

Chips

n/a

1912

J. G. Griffiths, BA (Dublin)

History and French

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n/a

1913 - 1942

A. E. Machin, BA (Cantab)

History
d 1967

?

n/a

1913 - 1944

E. O. Cozens, MA (Lond)

English
d 1966

Ernie

n/a

1914 - 1919

H. D. Bentliff, BA (Cantab)

Mathematics
d 1953

?

n/a

1914 - 1953

N. H. Band, BA (Lond)

Latin
d 1963

Bandy

n/a

1914 - 1957

S. W. Broadbent

Physical Training
d 1971

Sammy

n/a

1916 - 1930

W. B. Thomas, MA (Lond)

English
d 1959

?

n/a

1917 - 1945

A. W. Green, BA (Lond) L es L (Caen)

French
d 1973

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n/a

1917 - 1942

E. L. Edlin, MA (Oxon)

Chemistry
d 1969

Dynamite Dan

n/a

1918 - 1927

R. W. Atkin, BA (Cantab)

Geography
d 1927

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n/a

1918 - 1927

F. H. Cliffe, MA, Mus.Bac (Oxon)

Music
d 1941

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n/a

1918 - 1928

H. H. Harriss, MA (Cantab)

Mathematics
d 1960

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n/a

1919 - 1954

R. W. Pyne, BSc (Lond), (O.S.)

Physics
d 1964

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n/a

1919 - 1946

W. J. Smith, BSc (Lond)

Chemistry
d 1968

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n/a

1919 - 1945

R. Ward, MA (Cantab), LLM (Liverpool)

Mathematics
d 1949

Fanny

n/a

1919

A. W. Andrews, MA (Oxon)

Geography

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n/a

1919 - 1921

A. F. O. D. Alexander, BA (Lond)

History

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n/a

1919 - 1925

H. Lee, BA (Lond)

English
d 1951

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n/a

1920 - 1952

E. G. Ashton, MA (Cantab)

Geography
d 1988

Bill

n/a

1921 - 1926

L. Findlay, MA (Aberdeen)

French and History

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n/a

1921 - 1924

H. Kay, MA (Manchester)

History

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n/a

1921 - 1925

A. G. F. Willis, MA (Cantab)

Mathematics

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n/a

1921 - 1961

A. G. Stripp, BSc (Lond)

Mathematics; Second Master 1955 - 1961
d 1973

Alfie

n/a

1924 - 1954

J. F. Nichols, MC, MA, PhD, FSA

History
d 1965

Old Nick

n/a

1925 - 1950

R. G. Westbrooke, BA (Lond)

English
d 1956

?

n/a

1925 - 1946

L. J. Charman, MA (Cantab), BSc (Lond)

Mathematics
d 1976

Sis

n/a

1926 - 1947

Victor E. A. Bowley, MA, PhD (Lond) (O.S.)

French
d 1968

Vic

n/a

1926 - 1956

A. Wadsworth, MC, BA, (Lond), Les L (Lille)

French
d 1969

Waddy

n/a

1927 - 1945

R. H. Hunt, D.Mus (Lond) FRCO

Music
d 1982

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n/a

1927 - 1944

S. A. Billinghurst, BSc, PhD (Lond)

Geography

Fishy

n/a

1928 - 1958

V. C. Osborne, MA (Lond)

English
d 1982

Ossie

n/a

1928 - 1931

R. J. Young, MA (Lond)

Mathematics
d 1931

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n/a

1928 - 1959

W. G. Jackson, BSc (Lond)

Mathematics
d 1982

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n/a

1929 - 1942

A. Needham, FRSA, AMC

Art
d 1961

Auntie (possibly originally Arty)

n/a

1930 - 1958

A. Haythorne, MBE, BA (Leeds)

French
d 1979

Algie

n/a

1932 - 1956

T. Lawrenson, MA (Oxon)

Mathematics
d 1964

?

n/a

1934 - 1950

J. I. Peatfield, BSc (Lond)

Physics

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n/a

1944 - 1951

J. G. Redmayne, MA (Oxon), ARCO

Latin
d 1960

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n/a

1945 - 1961

Miss C. R. Highton, MA (Dunelm)
(Mrs Gibson)

Latin

Connie

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1945 - 1971

J. W. Walker, BA (Cantab)

History
d 1986

Trog

n/a

1945 - 1950

C. J. Kelly, ARCM

Music
d 1956

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n/a

1946 - 1951

G. J. Pester, BSc (Lond)

Chemistry

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n/a

1946 - 1975

J. D. Roberts, BA (Lond)

English
d 1990

Boris;
Thunder Guts

n/a

1946 - 1957

A. H. S. Cocks, BA (Cantab)

Mathematics

?

n/a

1947 - 1965

H. J. Cavell, MSc, PhD (Lond)

Chemistry
d 1965

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n/a

1947 - 1956

Mrs L. M. I. Wadsworth

Art

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n/a

1947 - 1948

S. A. Schiff, MA (Oxon)

Mathematics

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n/a

1947 - 1948

F. B. Musset, L es L (Lyons)

French

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n/a

1948 - 1950

W. E. Oakes, BA (Lond), (O.S.)

French and German

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n/a

1948 - 1953

P. W. L. State (O.S.)

Manual Training

?

n/a

1950 - 1954

G. F. E. Rude, BA (Cantab & Lond), PhD

French and German

?

n/a

1950 - 1954

G. C. Moore, BA (Wales)

Music

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n/a

1951 - 1954

J. N. B. Prance, BSc (Lond)

Physics

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n/a

1951 - 1958

D. A. E. Taylour, MA (Oxon), (O.S.)

Geography

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n/a

1951 - 1953

K. W. Dobson, BA (Lond)

English
d 1976

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n/a

1951 - 1955

D. H. Fage, MA (Cantab)

Chemistry

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n/a

1952 - 1960

R. Allison, MA (Lond), PhD

Geography

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n/a

1953 - 1957

W. T. Stacey, BA (lond)

Latin

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n/a

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