Cirencester Grammar School

1461

1966

Dr , physicist and former president of the Association of University Teachers and the Royal Microscopical Society

Vernon Ellis Cosslett

William Court, Professor of Economic History at the from 1947 to 1970 and president of the Economic History Society from 1969 to 1970

University of Birmingham

(1763–1834), antiquary, topographer and writer.

James Dallaway

cricketer whose centenary was celebrated at a reunion in Cirencester in 2003.

Wally Hammond

who invented inoculation to control infectious diseases.

Edward Jenner

Prof Christopher Price, president of the from 2003 to 2006

Association for Clinical Biochemistry

Prof CBE, mathematician

Clement John Tranter

Raymond Fletcher was presented with the OBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004 for Services to Disabled People.

Notable staff[edit]

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was music master at the school from 1959 to 1962, and it was here that he started his lifelong association with writing works for non-specialist children to perform. He wrote many works for the school's orchestra and choir, including O magnum mysterium. The school took part in the 1962 Bath Festival, with Yehudi Menuhin playing a composition by Sixth former Stephen Arnold.^[2]

to 1880: Rev. William Bartram

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to 1945: Mr W. N. Weech

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1945–1949: Captain ^[4]

Peter Gedge

1949–1954: Douglas Whiting, later head of and Director of Voluntary Service Overseas^[5]

Cheadle Hulme School

1954–1961: John Vernon Bartlett, later head of ^[6]