namely The Perse School Singapore (opened in Jan 2020) and The Perse School Suzhou in China (opened in Sep 2021). Headmaster's blog On his blog the headmaster, Ed Elliott, described his 'ten second challenge' in which he would give students who "commit occasional minor misdemeanours (such as forgetting a book) the opportunity to talk their way out of a punishment". The story was quickly picked up by the mainstream media who reported that pupils were "let off punishment for clever excuses". Notable Perseans Academia Maurice Bloch, anthropologist Harold James, professor of history and international relations W. E. Johnson, logician F. R. Leavis, literary critic Michael Loewe, sinologist Edward Henry Palmer, orientalist G. L. S. Shackle, economist E. H. Warmington, classicist Art Thomas P. Campbell, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Business David Tang, Hong Kong-based entrepreneur Engineering Arthur Marshall, aviation engineer Anthony Michell, hydraulic engineer Film and theatre Ranjit Bolt, translator and playwright Marius Goring, actor Peter Hall, founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company Humphrey Jennings, film director Matthew Lloyd, theatre director, Royal Exchange, Manchester Colin McFarlane, actor Jeremy Silberston, film director Law Mark Potter, Appeal Court judge and President of the Family Division Media Simon Akam, author, writing on military history and the British Army since 9/11 Mel Calman, cartoonist Rodney Dale, writer and publisher John Gross, critic and editor Tom Harwood, journalist for Guido Fawkes, The Daily Telegraph and GB News Tom Rosenthal (publisher) (1935–2014), publisher and art critic Mark Saggers, BBC sports broadcaster Military Group Captain William Neil McKechnie, George Cross recipient Ralph Lilley Turner MC, 2nd/3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles Music Pete Atkin, singer/songwriter David Gilmour, singer/songwriter and guitarist of Pink Floyd Spike Hughes, jazz musician and journalist Ronnie Ross, jazz musician John Woolford, first boyfriend of Benjamin Britten Politics Anthony Browne, Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire Rajani Palme Dutt, leading figure in the Communist Party of Great Britain Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge 2010-2015 David Steiner, New York State Commissioner of Education Donald Tebbit, diplomat, British High Commissioner to Australia Quentin Thomas, civil servant, head of the British Board of Film Classification Religion John Polkinghorne, physicist and theologian Bishop Jeremy Taylor, an influence on the foundation of Methodism Science Gustav Victor Rudolf Born, pharmacologist Sarah Martins Da Silva, gynaecologist and scientist Associate Professor Anthony Lowe, mathematical physicist and actuary Brian G. Marsden, astronomer Ronald G. W. Norrish, Nobel Prize in Chemistry