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Boston Grammar School - Staff - B
The aim of this page is to profile the staff of Boston Grammar School, past and present. If you have information about any of the staff of the type recorded here, then please send it to the email address at the bottom of this page.
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Bacon, Stanley - BGS 1922-1926
Before BGS - BA, St John's, Oxford
Baines, David - BGS 1994-2006
Position - Head of Chemistry
Subject - Chemistry
After BGS - Spalding Grammar School; died March 2010
Banks, John - BGS 1790-1825
While at BGS - Appointed 26 July 1790
Barbaroux, B - BGS 1976-1977
Subject - French
While at BGS - A one year exchange with Ian Bruce Constable; Barbaroux came from France.
Barnes, William Hodgson - BGS ?-?
Position - Fifth Master
Barrow, Roy Frederick - BGS 1961-1965
Before BGS - BA, St Mark and St John, Chelsea
Bastick, Frank Ronald Gilbert - BGS 1926-1951
Nickname - Bill
Subject - English
Before BGS - Born Bishop's Castle, Shropshire where his father was a teacher; Grammar Schools at Crewkerne, Sherborne and Southampton; BA, London; Teaching at Uttoxeter, Sedburgh and Anglesey
While at BGS - Organist and choirmaster at Kirton Parish Church from 1926 to 1947
After BGS - Teaching at Grammar Schools at Frechville (Sheffield), Knighton and Bishop's Castle in Shropshire.
Bateman, Thomas - BGS 1759-1769
While at BGS - Appointed 9 January 1759
Bazlinton, John Francis - BGS 1838, 1843-1898
Nickname - Old Bazzy
Beadell, Samuel - BGS 1588-1597
While at BGS - Appointed 6 January 1589
Beard, Anthony - BGS 1971-1972 ?
Subject - English
At BGS - Responsible for the school library
After BGS - Diploma in Librarianship (Polytechnic of North London); Senior Lecturer Information Management; Choirmaster (St Paul's, Ruislip)
Beck, Antony James - BGS 1937-1946
Subject - English
Before BGS - BA, St Edmund Hall, Oxford
After BGS - Left 1941 to join the army and did not return.
Bell, Andrew - BGS 1971-1978
Nickname - Fritz
Subject - Physics, Mathematics
Before BGS - B Ed, Hull
While at BGS - Swimming, CCF (Army Section)
Bell, Joseph - BGS 1688-1693
While at BGS - Appointed 29 January 1688
Bell (Miss), Nina Joyce (Mrs Evans) - BGS 1940-1943
Subject - Art
Before BGS - Royal College of Art
Bell, Obadiah - BGS 1769-1790
While at BGS - Appointed 28 September 1769; he was at BGS until his death in 1790
Bennett, Thomas - BGS 1681-1688
While at BGS - Appointed January 1681
Blackbourne, John - BGS 1609-1613
While at BGS - Appointed 18 January 1609
Blackburn, Herbert - BGS 1915-1918
Before BGS - BA, London
Blakebrough, Peter John - BGS 1979-1984
Nickname - Pete
Subject - English
Before BGS - Born in London; BEd, Hughes Hall, Cambridge
At BGS - Responsible for the school library
After BGS - MA, London University; Kitwood Boys School, Boston; Lincolnshire Education Authority; deputy head, Kent; retired 1994
Block,Timothy Leighton - BGS 1964-1967, 1970-1971
Subject - French
Before BGS - BA, Birmingham
At BGS - Model Railway Club; Between 1967 and 1970 Tim is believed to have been in Zambia
Border, George Ward - BGS 1921-1949
Nickname - Binky
Position - Deputy Head from 1929
Subject - Mathematics
Before BGS - Educated at Lincoln Grammar School (head boy); MA, Christ Church, Oxford (cox of Head of the River crew); Major in the First World War
While at BGS: Territorial Army; recalled to Lincolnshire Regiment (1939), serving with Army Education Corps; returned to BGS in 1941.
Borrett, Robin Charles - BGS 1962-1994
Position - Head of Chemistry from 1967
Subject - Chemistry
Before BGS - Educated at Stowmarket Grammar School (1948-1955); BSc (Hons), Nottingham(1958); taught at Fakenham Grammar School
While at BGS - Football, Badminton Club, The OBA's representative at the school
Bostock, S StC - BGS 1971-1972
Nickname - Bouncing Bob
Subject - Physics ?
Before BGS - BA, Cambridge; BSc, Hull; PGCE
While at BGS - Librarian, Chess Club, Dramatic Society, Athletic Club
Boughie, Robert - BGS 1613-?
While at BGS - Appointed 26 November 1613
Bourguin, F - BGS ?-?
Subject - Modern Languages
Bowman, Joseph Herbert - BGS 1931-1933
Before BGS - BA, Birmingham
Boycott, Stephen John - BGS 1980-?
Before BGS - BSc, Exeter
Brierley, Richard Steven - BGS 1964-1990
Nickname - Bugs
Subject - Head of Biology
Before BGS - BSc (Hons), Manchester; Cert Ed, Manchester
While at BGS - Tennis, Dramatic Society, Natural History Society
After BGS - Died 2004
Briggs, Charles Lionel - BGS 1919-1922
Subject - English
Before BGS - Born 1877; Framlingham College, Suffolk; BA, Liverpool University College; MA, Manchester College, Oxford (1902); travelled to Russia and Canada; RAMC WWI
While at BGS - Lived at 42 Spilsby Road, Boston; died 1922
Bromwich, (Miss) Mary Elizabeth - BGS 1917-1919
Subject - English, Religious Knowledge
Before BGS - BA, London
Brough, (Mrs) Grace Margaret - BGS 1941-1945
Subject - French
Before BGS - BA, Manchester
Brown, Anthony - BGS 1595-1598
While at BGS - Appointed 31 July 1595
Burrell, Bernard Reginald - BGS 1923-1925
Before BGS - BA, Keble, Oxford
Butler, Cyril Keith - BGS 1955-1957
Before BGS - MA, Southampton
Butterfield, T M - BGS ?-?
Position - Careers Master
Before BGS - BA, Birmingham