St Albans School (Hertfordshire) - Notable Teachers

Notable Teachers

James Shirley is the best known former headmaster. See also list of headmasters at St Albans School.

  • Bruce Balden (b. 1957), mathematician and participant in TV series Seven Up!
  • Noel Cassidy, International Education Consultant
  • Vivien Graveson, writer
  • Geoffrey de Gorham (d. 1146), scholar, Abbot of St Albans Abbey 1119–1146
  • Alexander Neckam (1157–1217), scientist and teacher
  • Tommy Hampson (1907–1965), middle distance runner (800m Gold Medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles)
  • David Franklin, broadcaster
  • Eric James Logan, founding member of the 80's pop band The Mood
  • John Mole (b. 1941), poet, critic and jazz clarinettist. City of London Poet In Residence since 1998 (under the Poetry Society's Poet in the City scheme)
  • Jennifer Higgins (b.1963), mathematician and opera singer
  • Herbert Edward Palmer (1880–1961), poet
  • James Shirley (1596–1666), playwright
  • Dikran Tahta (1955–1961), mathematician and inspiration to Stephen Hawking
  • Andrew Parnell (1976–2001), organist.
  • Peter Hurford Organist
  • Charles Bloxham (1915–2010), who was a master at the school for 43 years, played rugby for Oxford (62 Varsity caps in four years as a blue) and Blackheath, was in the Warwickshire county championship winning side and a reserve England forward against Ireland in 1939 and was tipped for the full England squad but went to war instead, after which he returned to teach at St. Albans. A brief obituary was broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

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