Cambridgeshire High School for Boys

The Cambridgeshire High School for Boys was founded as the Cambridge and County School for Boys in 1900. It was later the Cambridge and County High School for Boys, and then finally the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys before it was transformed in the 1974 reorganisation of education in Cambridgeshire into Hills Road Sixth Form College.

Former Headmasters

* 1900 Rev Charles John Napoleon Child
* 1917 Peter Henderson [died 1917]
* 1917 Rev Charles John Napoleon Child [acting head]
* 1919 Major C J R Whitmore
* 1923 Arthur Brinley Mayne
* 1946 Brinley Newton John (father of Olivia Newton-John);
* 1954 Arthur William Eagling.
* 1969 Colin W Hill (subsequently Principal of Hills Road Sixth Form College 1974-1984.

Alumni

* Syd Barrett (1957-62) and Roger Waters (1955-62) of the rock band Pink Floyd both attended the school. Barrett is remembered for the unprecedented way in which he resisted the school's strict code of conduct. The album The Wall allegedly draws heavily upon Waters' experience of the school. It is suggested that the songs The Happiest Days of Our Lives, which recalls the sadism of certain teachers, and the hit single Another Brick in the Wall, which includes the famous lyrics "We don't need no education", were in particular aimed at his time there.
* Martin Amis (author) records in his autobiography "Experience" that he attended the school 1962-63 while his father Kingsley Amis and his mother Hilary were living off of Madingley Road.
* The artist Storm Thorgerson (1956-63) was a contemporary and friend of Syd Barrett and Roger Waters. He was the co-founder of the Hipgnosis partnership, who designed record covers for, amongst others, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Yes, Genesis and Muse.
* Hayden Phillips (former Permanent Secretary, Department for National Heritage/Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Lord Chancellor's Department/Department for Constitutional Affairs);
* Kevin Tebbit (former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence
* Mark Tout (1972-77), the British bobsledder, was a member of the team which finished fifth at the Winter Olympics of 1994. In 1994-95 the team was second in the World Bobsleigh Championships. He subsequently made regular appearances as a team member on A Question of Sport.

External links

* [http://www.oldcantabrigiansociety.org.uk/public/portal.php Old Boys' Society]