Stonyhurst College - Notable Masters

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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