University College School - Notable Staff

Notable Staff

Former staff include:

• John Lewis Alexander Paton, Headmaster 1898-1903. Stayed only five years. He left due to constant arguments with the Council of University College London about money and the school's need to move out of central London. He left to become Head Master of Manchester Grammar School (1903–24), according to the Manchester Grammar School website, he was eventually recognised as one of the most renowned school masters of the 20th century and refused a Knighthood and a CH.
• Henry Weston Eve, Headmaster 1878-1898
• Sir William Smith, Lexicographer and Teacher
• The Rev Henry Browne, Headmaster
• Thomas Hewitt Key, Headmaster
• Henry Malden, Headmaster
• Thomas Archer Hirst FRS, Teacher 1860 - 1864. Nominated and admitted to the Royal society whilst teaching at UCS. Later, Professor of Physics, University College London.
• Augustus De Morgan Distinguished mathematician. First Professor of Mathematics, University College London, according to The British Society for the History of Mathematics, taught pupils when the distinctions between the school and college were somewhat blurred. Believed to have taught James Joseph Sylvester. De Morgan was the first President of the London Mathematical Society. The De Morgan Medal is named in his honour. It has been awarded to at least one Old Gower - Sir Roger Penrose.
• John Williams, taught at UCS post World War II, first Master of Music at St Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London, which was then a royal chapel. Professor at the Royal College of Music. Honorary fellow of the Royal College of Music and Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts.
• George Baxter MBE, Vice-Master (1938–53).
• Alan Barker, Headmaster, Husband of Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington.
• John Story Masterman, Assistant-Master, mountaineer and one of the three pioneers of British Geography.
• Thomas Nolan Miller, Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge (1862–68), classical lecturer.
• J.J. Walker F.R.S.
• G. S. Carr, according to BSHM.
• Alexander William Williamson, according to A Tradition for Freedom he taught pupils at the school.
• Carey Foster, Professor of Physics at University College London.
• Mordaunt Shairp (taught drama 1920-33), left UCS to become a successful play / screenwriter.
• Geoffrey Page (taught pottery in the 1970s), rowed for England in 1954 Commonwealth Games, coached GB rowing team for 1964 and 1968 Olympics, rowing correspondent for the Daily Telegraph.