Notable Former Masters
- David Chapman (scientist), FRS, Physical Chemist
- Rev. Robert Noel Douglas played cricket for Surrey and Middlesex
- Ronald Eyre Theatre Director, Writer and Actor.
- Russell Harty, a BBC2 chat show host in the 1980s from Blackburn, taught English at the school, notably to Richard Whiteley. Harty and Whiteley entered television at the same time in the late 1960s.
- John Langhorne (senior) was mathematics and writing master for thirty years, leaving in about 1859.
- William Wyamar Vaughan. Headmaster, a position he later held at Wellington and Rugby schools
- David E.W Morgan (Modern Languages and Careers for 38 years)
Allegedly the Three Peaks Walk was invented in July 1887 by two masters at the school ; D.R.Smith and J.R.Wynne-Edwards (father of Sir Robert Wynne-Edwards - see OG's above).
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