Notable Masters
- Brian Ashton, history master and England rugby coach.
- Dick Greenwood, Assistant bursar and England rugby coach.
- Christopher Hollis, assistant master, history master (1925–1935), author, politician and president of the Oxford Union.
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, classics master and poet.
- Stephen Joseph Perry, astronomy master.
- Pietro Angelo Secchi, astronomy master, astrophysicist, and director of the Vatican Observatory.
- George Tyrrell, philosophy master and Roman Catholic modernist.
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