page_title: List of Phillips Exeter Academy people
section_title: Notable faculty members and trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy
hierarchical_section_title: List of Phillips Exeter Academy people / Notable faculty members and trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy
caption_attribution_description: From the Library of Congress
context_page_description: The following is a list of notable faculty, trustees, and alumni of Phillips Exeter Academy, a preparatory school in Exeter, New Hampshire, founded in 1781.
context_section_description: John Phillips – founder of Phillips Exeter; President of Board of Trustees 1781–1795
  John Pickering – federal judge, impeached for drunkenness; trustee 1781–1782
  Paine Wingate — New Hampshire delegate to the Continental Congress; U.S. representative from New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire; trustee 1787–1809
  Benjamin Abbot – Principal 1788–1838
  Nicholas Emery – Judge on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court; assistant teacher 1797
  Gideon Lane Soule – Principal 1838–1873
  Daniel Dana – President of Dartmouth College; instructor 1789–91; Board of Trustees 1809–1843
  John Taylor Gilman – delegate to the Continental Congress; Governor of New Hampshire; President of Board of Trustees 1795–1827
  Ashur Ware – federal judge; instructor 1804–1805
  Nathan Hale – editor and publisher; introduced regular editorial commentary; instructor 1805–1807
  Alexander Hill Everett – diplomat and politician; assistant teacher 1807
  Nathan Lord – President of Dartmouth College; faculty 1809–1812
  Henry Ware Jr. – mentor to Ralph Waldo Emerson; instructor, 1812–1814
  James Walker – President of Harvard University; faculty 1814–1815
  William Bourne Oliver Peabody – minister and author; assistant instructor 1817
  Ebenezer Adams – first professor of mathematics and natural philosophy
  Nathaniel Appleton Haven – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; President of Board of Trustees 1828–1830
  Jeremiah Smith – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; judge; Governor of New Hampshire; President of Board of Trustees 1830–1842
  Francis Bowen – philosopher, writer, and educationalist; faculty 1833–1835
  Joseph Gibson Hoyt – Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis; faculty 1840–1858
  Andrew Preston Peabody – Unitarian clergyman and author; Board of Trustees, 1843–1885
  Amos Tuck – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; founder of the Republican Party; Board of Trustees 1853–1879
  Robert Franklin Pennell – scholar and classicist; faculty 1871–1882
  Albert C. Perkins – Principal 1873–1883
  Charles H. Bell – Governor of New Hampshire; trustee 1879–1883
  George Lyman Kittredge – faculty 1883–1887
  Walter Quincy Scott – President of Ohio State University; principal 1884–1889
  Charles Everett Fish – Principal 1890–1895
  Harlan P. Amen – Principal 1895–1913
  T.A. Dwight Jones – faculty
  H. Hamilton "Hammy" Bissell – Director of Scholarships
  Robert H. Bates – mountaineer; faculty
  Lewis Perry – Principal 1914–1946
  William Ernest Gillespie – Latin instructor 1939–1967, vice principal, dean of faculty, interim Principal 1963–1964
  William Saltonstall – Principal 1946–1963
  Donald B. Cole – historian; faculty 1947–1988
  Dandridge MacFarlan Cole – American aerospace engineer, futurist, lecturer, and author; faculty 1949–1953, physics and astronomy
  Winthrop Jordan – historian; faculty member in History Department 1955–1960
  Frederick Buechner – writer; theologian; Religion and English faculty and School Minister 1958–1967
  Cabot Lyford – sculptor; faculty 1963–1986
  Richard W. Day – Principal 1964–1973
  Michael S. Greco – President of American Bar Association; faculty 1965–1968
  George Crowe – ice hockey coach; faculty 1969–1975
  David P. Robbins – mathematician; faculty 1972–1977
  Dolores Kendrick – Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia; faculty 1972–1993
  Stephen G. Kurtz – historian; Principal 1974–1987
  Kendra Stearns O'Donnell – painter; Principal 1987–1997
  Tyler Tingley – Principal 1997–2009
  Thomas Hassan – faculty 1989–present; Principal 2009–2015
  Dan Brown – New York Times bestselling author; faculty 1993
  Michael Golay – historian; faculty 1999–present
  Gwynneth Coogan – U.S. Olympian; faculty 2002–present
  Todd Hearon – faculty 2003–present
  Olutoyin Augustus – Nigerian hurdler; instructor in physical education 2011–present
  Thomas W. Simpson – faculty 2008–present
  Lisa MacFarlane – Principal 2015–2018
caption: Charles H. Bell
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