Notable Staff
Sir William Golding, author of the novel Lord of the Flies and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, was a schoolmaster teaching Philosophy and English in 1939 and then English from 1945 to 1962. Lord of the Flies was Golding's first book, written in 1954, and it is widely believed that the child characters were based on Golding's students, some of whom are alive to this day. Golding also regularly sang with Bishop Wordsworth's School choir.
After Golding's death in 1993, the school choir sang at his memorial service in Salisbury Cathedral. A plaque was placed at the school to commemorate Golding's time as a teacher in March 2005.
Headmaster Happold was also noted for the foundation of the "Company of Honour and Service". Father Kenelm Foster O.P. wrote " a sort of modernist Grail (for Boys) or Solidarity which Dr Happold founded in 1935 at Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury. This is his nucleus, his 'order', his new aristocracy, which is to permeate England: a little cohort of leaders, of seers, of doers." (Cited in Happold, 1964, pp. 33).
Alan Harwood was a notable organ scholar and taught Music at Bishop Wordsworth's School. After Harwood's death in 2003, composer Sam Hanson dedicated a requiem to him.
Former Headmaster Clive Barnett HMI (who left the school in 2002) is patron of the charity EdUKaid, a role he shares with Glenys Kinnock MEP.
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