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Professor Michael Anderson
House:Wills West
Class Of:1956
Drama

Retired Professor Emeritus in Drama at University of Kent at Canterbury
Robert Anderson DPhil
House:Fairwater
Class Of:1959
Robert Anderson taught at the Universities of Glasgow & Edinburgh. From 1988 he was Professor of Modern History and 1997-2002 Dean of Falkultät. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Professor Christopher Balch
House:Goodland
Class Of:1970
Geography

Professor of Planning at Plymouth University.
Professor Richard Blake
House:Fairwater
Class Of:1990
English Professor at Inje University, Korea
Dr Ian Craig
House:Wills West
Class Of:1987
Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the Uniiversity of the West Indies.
Dr Caroline Derry
House:Bevan
Class Of:1990
Senior Lecturer in Law at London Metropolitan University teaching Criminal Law, Women and Law, Evidence Law as well as Gender and Human Rights. Previously practised as a barrister in criminal defence, and as a solicitor. Her primary research interests include feminist perspectives on criminal and evidence law; and feminist and lesbian legal history.
John Dorrell
House:Wills West
Class Of:1933
Deceased:
Distinguished Educationalist - On local government reorganisation in 1974, he became Secretary to the Headmasters' Conference and was instrumental in bringing together the Headmasters and the Headmistresses and setting up the Secondary Heads Association.
Professor Michael Goodchild
House:School House
Class Of:1962
Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was awarded the Prix Vautrin Lud, regarded by many as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for Geography. The international award is named after a C16th French map maker who is credited as being the first to name the New World 'America'. The prestigious annual award is given to a scientist who has significantly advanced the field of geography, and Michael became the 19th scholar to have won it.
Robert Goodland
House:Wills East
Class Of:1958
Deceased:
Enviromentalist: Professor at the University of Brasilia. Co-wrote the book Amazon Jungle: Green Hell to Red Desert? (1975), a key work in the birth of the international environmental movement. He became the first full-time ecologist at the World Bank in Washington. Over the next 23 years he developed environmental and social policies and procedures. President of the International Association of Impact Assessment 1994-95. Served on the World Commission on Dams and was co-author of the widely cited article Livestock and Climate Change. With today's threats of the construction of new large dams, and ever-growing numbers of livestock, lessons from Robert's work promise to be useful well into the future. In 2008 the International Union for the Conservation of Nature awarded him the first Harold Jefferson Coolidge medal, stating that "with the worldwide impact of development, it is hard to overemphasise Dr Goodland's contributions". Co-founded the website ‘Chomping Climate Change’ (www.chompingclimatechange.org) which provides materials for anyone interested in combating climate change, particularly youth.
Dr Fiona Harrison
House:Besley
Class Of:1997
Assistant Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University, USA, researching Alzheimer's Disease, prenatal development and Neuroscience.
Dr Matthew Heal
House:Goodland
Class Of:1984
Reader in Environmental Chemistry - University of Edinburgh
Dr Richard Hunt
House:Somerset
Class Of:1966
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology at the University of South Carolina
Dr William Kirk
House:Goodland
Class Of:1978
Senior Lecturer in Ecology and Entomology at Keele University
Professor Chris Langdon
House:Goodland
Class Of:1971
Professor of Fisheries at Oregon State University
Dr Jeremy Leaman
House:School House
Class Of:1965
Deceased:Date unknown - 2024? - confirmed by Tim Smart
Senior Lecturer in German and European Political Economy at Loughborough University. An active member of the EuroMemo Group of Economists for an Alternative Economic Policy in Europe and of the UK Tax Justice Network.
Gerald Lidstone
House:School House
Class Of:1971
Director of the Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICCE) and Deputy Head of the Drama Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. He was Director of a four-year British Know-How Fund (Foreign Office) project establishing arts management education in Slovakia. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a trustee of the Royal Victoria Hall Foundation and a member of the Board of Governors of Saddlers Wells, Greenwich and Makebelieve theatres.
Professor Michael Matthewson
House:Marshall
Class Of:1971
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Rutgers University, USA.
Professor Richard Nash
House:Wills West
Class Of:1973
Marine Ecology

Institute of Marine Research, Bergen. Has worked with fish community ecology in the Oslofjord and the Azores, early life history dynamics in the Great Lakes, distribution of organisms using traditional capture techniques and acoustics on the north wall of the Gulf Stream, acoustic assessments of herring in the Gulf of Maine and UK waters, flatfish nursery ground dynamics in UK waters and stock discrimination techniques again in UK waters.
Dr Mike Parker-Pearson
House:Wills West
Class Of:1975
An internationally renowned expert in the archaeology of death and also specialises in the later prehistory of Britain and Northern Europe and the archaeology of Madagascar and the western Indian Ocean. Mike joined Sheffield University in 1990, having worked as an archaeologist for English Heritage. His excavations at Stonehenge have attracted media interest and he has appeared several times in the Channel 4 TV show 'Time Team'.
James Priory
House:Marshall
Class Of:1991
Headmaster at Tonbridge School: Former Headmaster Portsmouth Grammar School
Stuart Raeburn
House:Evans
Class Of:1982
Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Michigan State University
Dr Alastair Richardson
House:Somerset
Class Of:1966
Professor of Zoology at the University of Tasmania, interested in the biology of terrestrial and freshwater crustaceans, and the role they play as ecosystem engineers.
Dr John Roberts CBE
House:Fairwater
Class Of:1945
Deceased:
Vice Chancellor of the University of Southampton (1979-85); Warden of Merton College, Oxford (1985-1994); Author and presenter of the BBC TV series 'The Triumph of the West' (1985)
Professor John Ryland
House:Fairwater
Class Of:1951
Emiritus Professor of Marine Biology at Swansea University
Rev Frank Stevens
House:Fairwater
Class Of:1929
Deceased:
Headmaster of Ormskirk Grammar School; Headmaster of Poole Grammar School; Headmaster of Nyakasura School in Uganda before being appointed Chief Inspector of Schools. Ordained into the Anglican priesthood in 1965 and worked in three Somerset parishes before finally retiring in 1976.
Roger Tarr
House:Fairwater
Class Of:1959
Deceased:
Senior Lecturer of Art History at Edinburgh University specialising late Medieval & Renaissance European Art (particularly Florence and Sienna).
Dr Merlin Thomas
House:Wills East
Class Of:1937
Deceased:
An outstanding teacher of French literature and language as well as an enthusiastic provider of theatre in the Oxford of the 50s, 60s and 70s. He held a Fellowship at New College to which he was elected in 1952 after completion of his DPhil thesis on the Quart Livre of Rabelais. He was an excellent linguist.
Dr Michael Thompson
House:Foxcombe
Class Of:1975
Senior Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University. His research focuses primarily on the work of dramatists writing in Spain since the early 20th century, especially Antonio Buero Vallejo (1916-2000), José María Rodríguez Méndez (1925-2009) and Paloma Pedrero (born 1957).
Dr Humphrey Tonkin
House:School House
Class Of:1958
Professor of English at University of Hartford, Connecticut specialising in the English Renaissance and Edmund Spenser, as well as language use and international languages. As a professor of the University of Pennsylvania, Tonkin in 1970 received the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. In 1974 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for a research year at Oxford University. The years 1980-81 he spent as a guest professor at Columbia University; in 1983 he became president of the Potsdam College of the State University of New York. From 1989 he was president of the University of Hartford. In 2006 he received the Cassandra Pyle Award for Leadership and Collaboration in International Education and Exchange. He currently teaches Shakespeare and Development of Theatre at the University of Hartford's Hartt School.
Dr Laurence Tratt
House:Marshall
Class Of:1997
Leads the Software Development Team in the Department of Informatics at King's College London.
Professor Michael Way
House:Senior Day Boys
Class Of:1940
Deceased:
Professor of Applied Zoology - Seconded to Zanzibar to work on cloves in 1950, he provided the basis of practical biological control of key pests of coconuts. He returned to Rothamsted in 1957, where he recognised the need to forecast when insecticides should be applied to avoid expensive and environmentally damaging calendar-based applications. His work at Imperial College, London led to the first implementation of a forecasting programme for the aphid in Britain in 1977. Appointed Director of Imperial College's renowned field station, Silwood Park, in 1969 and was closely involved in its redevelopment, which included a Science Park aimed at encouraging companies to collaborate with Imperial College scientists. Under his leadership, Silwood Park strengthened its status as the world's leading training centre for entomologists from the developing world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa.
William Whitehead FRCO
House:Marshall
Class Of:1988
Concert organist, teacher and writer. As a teacher, he has held posts at both the Royal Academy of Music and Trinity College of Music, and now teaches organ students from around the country, including at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
Professor Ian Whitmore
House:Fairwater
Class Of:1963
Professor of Surgery at Stanford University, California
Annette Wilson
House:Weirfield School
Class Of:1965
Principal Lecturer at the School of Computing, University of Portsmouth.
Professor Philip Withers
House:Goodland
Class Of:1981
University of Manchester. Philip, one of the country’s top professors, was recognised (May 2014) with one of the most coveted awards in teaching: The Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education. This was awarded for part of his ground-breaking work ‘New techniques in X-ray imaging of materials critical for power, transport and other key industries’. This innovative imaging work has an impact across a range of sectors, including nuclear, aerospace, oil and gas, airport security, automotive, biomedical materials, manufacturing and defence.
Dr Terence Wong
House:Foxcombe
Class Of:1983
Associate Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore In recent years, his research focus has shifted to photovoltaics and energy storage devices.
Dr Moger Woolley
House:Fairwater
Class Of:1954
Deceased:Confirmed by son
Honorary Fellow Bristol University (July 2014) - This is given to individuals who have attained distinction in their academic field, or have contributed consistently, over a significant period of time to the life of the University. In 1987, he joined the Council of the University, becoming Chair in 1997-06. Moger brought his expertise from the world of business, (Chairman bristol Water plc) helping to shape the culture of the University. In 2001, he led the panel that appointed the current Vice-Chancellor, and together they transformed the financial results to take on significant borrowings and fund major projects to enhance Bristol’s global strength. Moger is also Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire.
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