Plaque
in vestibule, KES |
Headmasters
of the Free Grammar School | |||||
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. | ||||
| Headmasters
of Wesleyan | ||||
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).