the Houses of Parliament until 1992 Dr Bernard MacManus, Vice-Chancellor from 1992-4 of Bournemouth University, and Director from 1983-91 of the Dorset Institute for Higher Education and from 1991-2 of Bournemouth Polytechnic Stefan Nahorski, Professor of Pharmacology from 1984-2006 at the University of Leicester Peter Nolan CBE, Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management since 1997 at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge Sir Julian Priestley KCMG (b. 1950), Secretary General of the European Parliament from 1997–2007 and author. Controversy In 2013, the Headmaster, Peter Eccles, was suspended following allegations, which did not relate to pupils, concerning his private life. At the same time a former bursar was facing charges of fraud but later those charges were dropped to lack of evidence and it was revealed that 33 members of staff had left since Mr Eccles became head in 2009. In August 2016 a former Teacher, Paul Kelly, was sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the High Court in Glasgow upon conviction of the physical and sexual abuse of boys between the years 1979 and 1983 at St Ninian's Orphanage, Falkland, Fife. Kelly was at the time a member of the Irish Christian Brothers. See also Buckfast Abbey Roman Catholic Diocese of Plymouth Notre Dame Catholic School Bishop Errington Saint Boniface Plymouth Devils Speedway Team St Boniface Arena List of direct grant grammar schools References External links Official site Fire in October 2002 Newsround April 2006 EduBase Catholic secondary schools in the Diocese of Plymouth Educational institutions established in 1856 Secondary schools in Plymouth, Devon Defunct grammar schools in England 1856 establishments in England School buildings in the United Kingdom destroyed by arson Academies in Plymouth, Devon