Abingdon School - Heads

Heads

The list is as published on a display in the school's main entrance hall.

  • Richard the Pedagogue, 1100 (unverified)
  • Chaplain of St. Nicholas, 1184
  • Benjamin, 1230
  • Walter de Mortimer, 1261
  • William de Coleshill, 1310–1316
  • John Brules, 1381–1384
  • Thomas Weston, 1387–1415
  • Hacker, 1420–1421
  • John Maltby, 1440–1441
  • John Tesdale (Clyffe), 1504–1540
  • Richard Croose, 1557
  • John Argall, 1568–c.1571
  • Thomas Orpwood, 1571–1573
  • Anthony Lancaster, 1573–1574
  • John Chamberlen, 1574–1577
  • Richard Williams, 1577–1578
  • Lewes, 1578–1583
  • Cerey, 1584–?
  • Richard Humfrey ?–1597
  • Anthony Appletree, 1597–1599
  • John Birde, 1600–1605
  • Degorie Wheare, 1605–1606.
  • Edward Groome, 1606–1608
  • Thomas Godwyn, DD, 1608–1625
  • Anthony Huish, 1625–1654
  • Nicholas Howe, 1654
  • Robert Payne, 1654–1655. Tesdale Usher-in-Charge
  • John Kerridge, 1655–57
  • Robert Jennings, 1657–1683
  • Richard Playdell, 1684–1716. Formerly Tesdale Usher (1676–1684)
  • Thomas Woods, 1716–1753. Formerly Tesdale Usher (1711–1716)
  • John Abbot, 1753–1758
  • Henry Bright, 1758–1774. Afterwards headmaster of New College School, Oxford
  • Andrew Portal, 1774–1775
  • William Kennedy, 1775–1792
  • John Lemprière, 1792–1809. Afterwards headmaster of Exeter School
  • Edward Nicholson, 1810–1827
  • Joseph Thomas James Hewlett, 1827–39
  • William Alder Strange, DD, 1840–1868
  • Edmund Tristram Horatio Harper, 1868–70. Formerly Tesdale Usher (1855–68)
  • Edgar Summers, 1870–1883
    • (b. 1834, d. 1907) Formerly second master at King's School, Ely and King Edward's Grammar School, Bury St Edmund's, and a master at Brighton College. After retirement from teaching, Summers became vicar of Brading, Isle of Wight, (1884–1906) and rural dean of East Wight. He died at Radley House, Winchester. There is a memorial window to him at Brading church.
  • William Herbert Cam, 1883–1893
  • Thomas Layng, 1893–1913
  • William Mitchell Grundy, 1913–1947
  • Sir James Cobban, CBE, 1947–1970
  • Sir (William) Eric (Kinloch) Anderson, KT, 1970–1975. Afterwards headmaster of Shrewsbury School, Eton College, Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford and Provost of Eton
  • Michael St. John Parker, 1975–2001
  • Mark Turner, 2002–2010. Afterwards headmaster of Shrewsbury School
  • Felicity Lusk, 2010–

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