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.
History
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.
Former headmasters
- 1900 Rev Charles John Napoleon Child
- 1917 Peter Henderson
- 1917 Rev Charles John Napoleon Child
- 1919 Major C. J. R. Whitmore
- 1923 Arthur Brinley Mayne
- 1946 Brinley Newton-John
- 1954 Arthur William Eagling
- 1969 Colin W. Hill
Alumni
- Martin Amis 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.
- Sir Steven Cowley, physicist, international authority on fusion energy.
- Peter Fluck, artist and sculptor, co-creator of the satirical TV show Spitting Image
- Sir Clive Granger, economist, won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2003
- Bob Klose, early member of Pink Floyd.
- Prof Norman Bertram (Freddy) Marshall, marine biologist, and Professor of Zoology from 1972–7 at Queen Mary, University of London
- Jacko Page (rugby union)
- Tony Palmer, film director and author
- 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
- Sir David Robinson
- William T. Stearn, botanist
- Sir Kevin Tebbit, at Bletchley Park in 1941. Tunny was an extensively-used German Second World War cypher more complex than the Enigma code, used by Hitler personally. Tutte went to Cambridgeshire High School on a scholarship in 1928, aged 11, and went on to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1935. After the war he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
- Roger Waters of Pink Floyd. The album The Wall allegedly draws heavily upon Waters' experience of the school. The Happiest Days of Our Lives, recalls the sadism of certain teachers, and Another Brick in the Wall part 2, which includes the famous lyrics "We don't need no education". In 2017, the 'Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains' exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London exhibited the punishment book for Cambridgeshire High School for Boys open at a caning for Roger Waters, along with the cane itself.
Former teachers
- Shaun Wylie, mathematician, taught at the school and Hills Road Sixth Form College for seven years after retiring from GCHQ in 1973. He was one of the codebreakers at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. A photograph of him is on display in the National Portrait Gallery in London. He was also the Ph.D. supervisor at Cambridge of alumnus William (Bill) Tutte.