in 1967 George Paget Thomson, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 Sport Zaman Akhter, cricketer Charles Clayton, cricketer Owen Giles, Northampton Saints rugby union player Alex Coles, Northamption Saints rugby union player Horace Gray, cricketer Richard Hesketh, cricketer Tess Howard, field hockey player Reimell Ragnauth, cricketer Staff Headmasters George Griffith, MA - died 1686 Frederick Heppenstall, MA - 1864 to 1874 Dr W. H. D. Rouse, MA, LittD (Cantab) - 1902 to 1928. Formerly a fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge H. A. Wootton - 1928 to 1945 Stanley Stubbs, MA - 1945 to 1969. Formerly a housemaster at Gresham's School Anthony E. Melville - 1969 to 1987. Formerly senior history master at Haileybury Dr Martin Stephen - 1987 to 1994. Subsequently, High Master of Manchester Grammar School from 1994 to 2004 and then St Paul's School from 2004 to 2011. Director of Education for GEMS Education UK. Non-Executive Chairman of the Clarendon Academies Group Dr Nigel P. V. Richardson - 1994 to 2008. Headmaster of The Dragon School from 1989 to 1992. Chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference in 2007. Governor of Magdalen College School and Haileybury. AGBIS board member. Author of the biography Thring of Uppingham: Victorian Educator Mr Edward C. Elliott, MA - 2008 onwards. Joined the school in 1997 as head of sixth form and was senior deputy head before being appointed headmaster Notable staff Henry Caldwell Cook, (1886–1939) educationalist Frederick Crossfield Happold DSO (Cantab.) Lilly Frazer (1854/5 – 1941) French teacher and writer Glenn Kirkham, captain of the England national field hockey team and Perse's Director of Sport in September 2017. Helen Richardson Walsh, hockey gold medalist References External links School Roll of Honour for the World Wars 1615 establishments in England Educational institutions established in the 1610s Private schools in Cambridgeshire Schools in Cambridge Member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference