Heads of Schools in the 'Family Tree' of KES

Plaque in vestibule, KES

 

Headmasters of the Free Grammar School
of James King of England within the
Town of Sheffield in the County of York

1604-1606
John Smith.
1648-1651
Peter Lanfitt, B.A.
1759-1776
John Smith, M.A.
1606-1608
Henry Saxton, M.A.
1651-1658
William Whitaker, M.A.
(1776 Acting
Edward Goodwin).
1608-1615
John Hancock, M.A.
1658-1663
Francis Potts, M.A.
1776-1809
Charles Chadwick, B.A.
1615-1619
George Young, B.A.
1664-1696
Thomas Balguy, M.A.
1809
Joseph Richardson, M.A.
1619-1622
Andrew Wade, M.A.
1696-1698
Charles Daubuz, M.A.
1810-1818
Joseph Wilson, B.A.
(1622 Acting
George Wade).
1698-1703
Marmaduke Drake, M.A.
1818-1830
William White, M.A.
1623-1625
Godfrey Mason.
1703-1709
George Lee, B.A.
1830-1863
Percival Bowen, M.A.
1625-1644
Thomas Rawson , B.A.
1709-1720
William Humpton, M.A.
1863-1884
Joseph E. Jackson, M.A. Ph.D. D.CL.
1645-1648
William Young, B.A.
1720-1734
Christopher Robinson, M.A.
1884-1899
Edward Senior, M.A.
1648
Roger Steare , B.A.
1734-1748
John Cliff, B.A.
1899-1905
Arthur B. Haslam, M.A.
  
1748-1759
Thomas Marshall, B.A.  


Principals of Sheffield
Collegiate School

Headmasters of Wesleyan
Proprietary Grammar School
(Later Wesley College)

1836-1842
Thomas W. Mellor, M.A.
1856-1860
Edward D. Ward, M.A.
1837-1853
John Manners, M.A.
1843-1853
George A. Jacob, M.A. DD
1861-1871
George B. Atkinson, M.A.
1853-1888
Henry McE Shera, M.A. LLD.
1853-1855
William S. Grignon, M.A.
1872-1879
James Cardwell, M.A.
1888-1891
Joseph J. Findlay, M.A. Ph.D
1880-1884 John J. Dyson, M.A.
1891-1905
Valentine W. Pearson, B.A.

Note: The (Free) Grammar School occupied various sites from 1604 to 1884, when it took over Sheffield Collegiate School on the latter's site on the corner of Collegiate Crescent and Ecclesall Road (now part of Sheffield Hallam University). The name was formally changed to Sheffield Royal Grammar School (SRGS) in 1888.

SRGS then merged with Wesley College on the Glossop Rd site, to form KES.

Wesley College was run from 1837 to 1888 by a 'Dyarchy', comprising the Governor and the Headmaster, the Governor being the senior of the pair (in theory). The Governors were:
Rev John McLean (1837-1842), Rev Isaac Keeling (1842-1844), Samuel Dousland Waddy (1844-1862), Rev John James, Rev John Harvard, Rev William Jessop, Rev William Dallinger FRS (1879-1888).

[Source: Cornwell, John (2005). King Ted's (1st ed.). King Edward VII School, Sheffield. ISBN 0-9526484-1-5.]