Rugby School - Headmasters

Headmasters

• Richard Seele - 1600
• Nicolas Greenhill - 1602
• Augustus Rolfe - 1606
• Wiligent Greene - to 1642
• Raphael Pearce - 1642 to 1651
• Peter Whitehead
• John Allen - to 1669
• Knightley Harrison - 1669 to 1674
• Robert Aahbridge - 1674 to 1681
• Leonard Jeacocks - 1681 to 1687
• Henry Holyoake - 1687 to 1730
• John Plomer - 1731 to 1742
• Thomas Crossfield - 1742 to 1744
• William Knail - 1744 to 1751
• John Richmond - 1751 to 1755
• Stanley Burrough - 1755 to 1778
• Thomas James - 1778 to 1794
• Henry Ingles - 1794 to 1806
• John Wooll - 1806 to 1827

• Thomas Arnold - 1828 to 1842
• Archibald Tait - 1842 to 1848
• Dr Meyrick Goulburn - 1849 to 1857
• Frederick Temple - 1858 to 1869
• Henry Hayman DD - 1870 to 1874
• Thomas William Jex-Blake, DD, 1874 to 1887
• John Percival, DD, - 1887 to 1895
• Herbert Armitage James, DD - 1895 to 1910
• Albert Augustus David - 1910 to 1921
• William Wyamar Vaughan - 1921 to 1931
• Percy Hugh Beverley Lyon - 1931 to 1948
• Sir Arthur Frederic Brownlow fforde - 1948 to 1957
• Walter Hamilton - 1957 to 1966
• James Woodhouse - 1967 to 1980
• Brian Rees -1980 to 1985
• Richard Bull - 1985 to 1990
• Michael Mavor - 1990 to 2001
• Patrick Derham - 2001 to present