Biographies (click name to view): Arthur Cecil Brown (Geography/History 1920-1960) Brian Luckett (Chemistry 1963-1975) David Mart (Mathematics 1971-2005) Dennis Grimsley (Chemistry 1956-1961) Ellick Ward (French…
Burton Grammar School Master (Geography / History 1920-1960) Cecil was born in Oxford, son of a watchmaker. He went to school in Oxford, and later worked…
Burton Grammar School Master (Chemistry 1963 – 1975) Brian Luckett was born in 1940 in London, and evacuated first to Newquay, Cornwall and then in…
David Mart was born in Ashby before moving to Stapenhill where he attended St Peter’s Junior school. His father was a grocer and managed a…
Dennis Grimsley belongs to one of the small number of staff whose association with Burton Grammar School started as a pupil before later returning to…
Ellick Thomas Ward was born in 1908 at Bingley, Yorkshire, the eldest of seven children and the only one of the siblings to enjoy a…
Burton Grammar School Master (Geography 1953-1984, Deputy Headmaster 1968-1984) Geoffrey was born in Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire in 1928. He was educated at West Bridgford Grammar School…
In 1915, while the First World War was raging, George Herbert Cooper joined Burton Grammar School as one of a small number of Scholarship boys…
Burton Grammar School Master (Mathematics 1949-1953, 1958-1979) Harry Smith, affectionately known as ‘Brab’, was born in 1923 in Taunton, Somerset. His Grandfather was the pioneering…
Herbert Harrington Pitchford, better known to all as ‘Horace’, was educated at Adams Grammar School in Newport, Shropshire. From here, he was successful in gaining…