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Boston Grammar School - Staff - J
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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Jackson, Dr Bernard - BGS ?-?
Nickname - Jacko
Subject - Music
While at BGS - Organist at St Botolph's Church
James, Revd. Thomas - BGS 1619-1620
Before BGS - Born in Lincolnshire
While at BGS - Appointed 4 June 1619
After BGS - Arrived in New England in 1632. He was the first minister of Charleston. Massachusetts.Returned to England in about 1650. Minister of Needham, Suffolk. Ejected for non-conformity in 1662. Died in 1678, aged eighty six.
Jaques, (Mrs) Hilda Emily - BGS 1942-1947
Subject - English
Before BGS - BA, London
While at BGS - she was the last of the Second World War women teachers to leave BGS in 1948
Jennings, H A - BGS ?-?
Before BGS - MA, Oxford
Jepthcot, Jonathan - BGS 1661-1663
While at BGS - Appointed 12 August 1661; he was ejected for non-conformity
Johnson, Frederick George - BGS 1874-1878
Position - Second Master
Johnston (Mrs), Cynthia Margaret - BGS ?-1978
Subject - Religious Education
Before BGS - MA, Cambridge (Mathematics); wife of Philip Frederick Johnston (headmaster)
After BGS - Representative of Cambridge University on the governing body of Boston High School
Johnston, Philip Frederick - BGS 1970-1977
Position - Headmaster
Nickname - Holy Joe, HJ, Bent Head
Subject - English, History, Religious Education
Before BGS - Manchester Grammar School (1954-54); two years' national service in the RAF (pilot officer); Christ's, Cambridge (History and Theology); BLit, Cert Ed, St Peter's, Oxford (Church History); Oxford Lacrosse half-blue; Assistant Master, Magdalen School, Oxford (1961-62); Wolverhampton Grammar School; head of history, Barnard Castle School, County Durham (1965-70)
While at BGS - Appointed 1 January 1970; CCF (RAF Section)
After BGS - Head Master, Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Blackburn, Lancashire
Jones, Hubert Alvanley - BGS 1950-1959
Nickname - Spike
Subject - Geography
Before BGS - BA, Selwyn, Cambridge
At BGS - CCF, naval section