Masters at Paston

Naturally, we all have our memories and stories of the many fabulous Masters at the School.  Some came and went, but by and large being a Master at the School was a calling, a life's work and a dedication to teaching us boys (and now girls too).

Paston School Headmasters

1604-25: Michael Tylles, MA(Cantab)[Corpus]
1625-40: Thomas Acres, MA(Cantab) [Trinity]
1640-48: Edward Warnes, MA(Cantab) [Corpus]
1648-66: Henry Luce, MA(Cantab)[Queens’]
1667-76: Joseph Eldred, BA(Cantab)† [Trinity]
1676-1701: Robert Harvey, MA(Cantab) [Emmanuel]
1701-03: Nicholas Girling, BA(Cantab)† [Christ’s]
1703-21: John Montford, MA(Cantab) [Trinity Hall]
1721-47: John Gallant, BA(Cantab)† [Corpus]
1747-64: Alexander Campbell, MA(Aberdeen)
[1764-67: school closed for rebuilding]
1767-78: John Price Jones, MA(Oxon) [Jesus]
1778-95: Joseph Hepworth, MA(Cantab) [Queens’]
1796-1807: Henry Hunter [Queen’s, Oxon, but no degree]
1807-25: William Tylney Spurdens [St Edmund Hall, Oxon, but no degree*]
1825-35: William Rees [Jesus, Oxon]
1835-43: Samuel Rees, MA(Cantab) [St John’s]
1843 [seven weeks]: George Harrison Wharton Thompson, MA(Oxon) [Magdalen Hall]
1844-73: Thomas Dry, MA(Oxon) [Merton Hall]
1874-78: Frederick Richard Pentreath, MA, DD (Oxon) [Worcester]
1878-1904: Henry Whytehead Wimble, MA)Oxon) [Queen’s]
1904-22: George Hare [no degree; first non-ordained Master]
1922-46: Percival Pickford, MA(Oxon) [Lincoln]
1946-75: Kenneth Newton Marshall, MA(Cantab) [Magdalene]
1975-81: Kenneth Michael Harre, MA(Oxon) [Exeter] (Rev)

*Spurdens is occasionally described as BA, and also as LL.B.
†Eldred,Girling and Gallant may have taken their MA; Forder does not record this.

Ken Marshall - 1946-1975

Actually the (joint)longest serving Head that the School saw, and the most remembered/notorious of recent years (being post-war).

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