Cambridgeshire High School for Boys
The Cambridgeshire High School for Boys was founded as the Cambridge and County School for Boys in Cambridge, England, in 1900. It was later the Cambridge and County High School for Boys, and then finally the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys. It had around 600 boys in 1970, with 150 in the sixth form. It was transformed into Hills Road Sixth Form College in the 1974 reorganisation of education in Cambridgeshire. The Cambridgeshire High School for Girls became the Long Road Sixth Form College, also in 1974. 1900 Rev Charles John Napoleon Child 1917 Peter Henderson (died 1917) 1917 Rev Charles John Napoleon Child [acting head] 1919 Major C. J. R. Whitmore 1923 Arthur Brinley Mayne 1946 Brinley Newton-John (father of Olivia Newton-John) 1954 Arthur William Eagling 1969 Colin W. Hill (subsequently Principal of Hills Road Sixth Form College, 1974–1984) Martin Amis (author) records in his autobiography "Experience" that he attended the school while his father Kingsley Amis and his mother Hilary were living off Madingley Road. Roger 'Syd' Barrett of the rock band Pink Floyd attended the school. Barrett is remembered for the unprecedented way in which he resisted the school's strict code of conduct. Charles Benstead, cricketer and Royal Navy officer Sir John Bradfield – Founder of Cambridge Science Park, the first Science Park in Europe. Peter Fluck, artist and sculptor, co-creator of the satirical TV show Sir Clive Granger, economist, won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2003 Bob Klose, early member of Pink Floyd. Prof Freddy Marshall, marine biologist, and Professor of Zoology from 1972–7 at Queen Mary, University of London David Parker, a Western Australian politician who served as Deputy Premier from 1988 until 1990. Sidney Peters, Liberal MP from 1929 to 1945 for Huntingdonshire Sir Hayden Phillips (former Permanent Secretary, Department for National Heritage/Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Lord Chancellor's Department/Department for Constitutional Affairs) Sir David Robinson William T.
