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Boston Grammar School - Staff - T
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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Tamlyn, Margaret Anne - BGS 1915
Position - Form Mistress of form two and the remove
At BGS - She was the first ever woman staff member at BGS. Women were introduced during the First World War to fill vacencies left by men departing to serve in the forces. She was at BGS from February to April 1915 and for the half term's service she was paid £25.
Tarrant, Frank Hobson - BGS 1884-1886
Position - Fourth Master
Taylor, Geoffrey - BGS 1967-1972
Before BGS - MA, Oxford; Dip Ed, Nottingham
While at BGS - Rowing, CCF (Signals Section)
Thépot, Martine - BGS 1981-1982
Position - French Assistante
Subject - French
Before BGS - Rennes ?
After BGS - Assistante at Market Deeping, Lincolnshire
Thomas (Mrs.) Jean Vaughan - BGS 1969-?
Nickname - Ma
Subject - Modern Languages
Before BGS - BA (Hons), Cert Ed, London
Thompson, (Mrs) Gertrude Rachael - BGS 1915-1917
At BGS - She was the wife of Arthur Edward Thompson and replaced her husband when he was commissioned into the Territorial Army in 1915. She remained at the school until March 1917.
Thompson, Arthur Edward - BGS 1913-1919
Thompstone, John Deaville - BGS 1974-1976
Tomlinson, Roy Edgar - BGS 1950-1955, 1959-1961
Nickname - Chick
Subject - Mathematics
Before BGS - Educated at Boston Grammar School (1939-1945) - footballer; St Mark's and St John's College, Chelsea
At BGS - Left BGS in 1955 for a post at Royal Navy School, Malta
After BGS - Head of mathematics at Giles School, Old Leake; later returned to Malta; retired 1970; returned to work at William Hewitt Comprehensive School (1984). Died, probably of a brain tumour, in the mid to late 1990s.
Tonks, Laurence Henry - BGS 1942-1950
Nickname - Tusker
Subject - Mathematics
Before BGS - MSc Leeds
At BGS - Left following conviction for an offence involving British Legion cash.
Tosser, Corentin - BGS 1910-1919
Subject - French
Tromans, Edward Philip - BGS 1957-1966
Nickname - Gert
Subject - Languages (including Russian), Religious Instruction
At BGS - From master, Played in the school orchestra, Railway Society, Trips to Russian ships in Boston docks
Turpin, Hubert - BGS 1927-1964
Nickname - Tilly
Subject - History
Before BGS - Born in Stamford, Lincolnshire; St Edmund Hall, Oxford
At BGS - Violin; Painting, Gardening; Wrote a short history of BGS to mark 400th anniversary of the charter