page_title: Repton School
section_title: Headmasters
hierarchical_section_title: Repton School / Headmasters
caption_attribution_description: Cropped screenshot of Basil Rathbone from the trailer for the film Tovarich.
context_page_description: Repton School is an independent co-educational boarding school in the British public school tradition, for pupils from aged 13-18, in Repton, Derbyshire, England, UK.
  Sir John Port of Etwall, on his death in 1557, left funds to create a grammar school which was then established at the Repton Priory. For its first 400 years, the school accepted only boys; girls were admitted from the 1970s, and the school was fully co-educational by the 1990s.
  Notable alumni, also known as "Old Reptonians", include C B Fry, Roald Dahl, and Michael Ramsey. A number of former pupils have gone on to play professionally and at an international level.
context_section_description: Thomas Whitehead (1621–1639)
  Philip Ward (1639–1642)
  William Ullock (1642–1667)
  Joseph Sedgwicke (1667–1672)
  Edward Letherland (1672–1681)
  John Doughty (1681–1705)
  Edward Abbot (1705–1714)
  Thomas Gawton (1714–1723)
  William Dudson (1723–1724)
  George Fletcher (1724–1741)
  William Asteley (1741–1767)
  William Prior (1767–1779)
  William Bagshaw Stevens (1779–1800)
  William Boultbee Sleath (1800–1830)
  John Heyrick Macaulay (1830–1840)
  Reverend Thomas Williamson Peile (1841–1854)
  Steuart Adolphus Pears (1854–1874)
  Henry Robert Huckin (1874–1882)
  William Furneaux (1883–1900)
  Hubert Burge (1900–1901)
  Lionel Ford (1901–1910)|
  William Temple (1910–1914)
  Geoffrey Fisher (1914–1932)
  John Christie (1932–1937)
  H.G. Michael Clarke (1937–1943)
  Theodore Lynam Thomas (1944–1961)
  John Thorn (1961–1968)
  John Gammell (1968–1978)
  David Jewell (1979–1987)
  Graham E. Jones (1987–2003)
  Robert Holroyd (2003–2014)
  Sarah Tennant, (acting head, 2014–2016)
  Alastair Land (2016–2019)
  Mark Semmence (from March 2019)
caption: Basil Rathbone, an alumnus of the school
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