Thomas Copeland 1437-?
Richard Percy c.1537-1544
William Gybson 1549-?
John Cook/Coke (1516-1589?) 1550/1554-1559?
Francis Myddelton 1560-1561
Thomas Parvys/Parvise 1562-1563
William Wolveton/Wolneton 1564-1565
John Delebere/Dalabere 1565
John Hancock 1566-1573
Thomas Seward 1573-1581
William Wood 1581-1601
John Geare/Geere (-c.1645) 1601-1603
George Grove (-1644) 1603-1639
Richard Newman (Old Shirburnian) (-1641) 1639-1641
Robert Balch 1641-1653
William Birstall/Burstall (c.1620-1699) 1654-1663
Joseph Allen 1663-1670
John Goodenough 1670-1683
Thomas Curgenven (1644-1712) 1683-1694, 1695
Thomas Creech (1659-1700) appointed in 1694 but never took up his post
George Gerard/Gerrard (c.1645-1721) 1695-1720
Benjamin Wilding (1681-1733) 1720-1733
John Gaylard (1690-1743) 1733-1743
Thomas Paget (c.1706-1783) 1743-1751
Joseph Hill (c.1712-1776) 1751-1766
Nathaniel Bristed (1733-1810) 1766-1790
John Cutler (1756-1833) 1790-1823
Ralph Lyon (1795-1856) 1823-1845
Charles Thomas Penrose (1816-1868) 1845-1849
Hugo Daniel Harper (1821-1895) 1850-1877
Edward Mallet Young (1839-1900) 1878-1892
Frederick Brooke Westcott (1857-1918) 1892-1908
Charles Henry Thursfield Wood (1869-1909) 1909
Frederick Brooke Westcott (1857-1918) Acting Headmaster 1909
Nowell Charles Smith (1871-1961) 1909-1927
Charles Lovell Fletcher Boughey (1887-1934) 1928-1933
William James Bensly (Old Shirburnian) (1874-1943) Acting Headmaster 1933-1934
Alexander Ross Wallace (1891-1982) 1934-1950
Geoffrey O’Hanlon (1885-1975) Acting Headmaster 1949
Robert William Powell (1909-1998) 1950-1970
David Acfield Emms (1925-2015) 1970-1974
Peter Thomas Currie (1922-2014) Acting Headmaster 1974
Robin Donnelly Macnaghten (1927-1999) 1974-1988
Peter Herbert Lapping (1941-2023) 1988-2000
Simon Flowerdew Eliot (b.1952) 2000-2010
Christopher John Davis (b.1961) 2010-2014
Ralph Anthony Barlow (b.1972) Acting Headmaster 2014-2015
Dominic Antony Luckett (b.1966) 2016-2024
Matthew Ian Jamieson (b.1979) Interim Headmaster 2024-2025
Simon Heard September 2025
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