made it relatively expensive to operate. A new comprehensive school replaced it. The old school association, OBOGA, was still going strong in 2013, when it celebrated its 90th annual reunion. Since the 1960s School House has been subdivided into 49A and 49B Hogshill Street, with a new development at one side called School House Close. Headmasters 1868: Rev. Thomas Neave 1916–1933: Llewellyn Skyrm (died 1965)‘SKYRM, Llewellyn Sidgwick M.’, in Who Was Who (London: A. & C. Black); online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007 1933–December 1935: I. M. B. Stuart, formerly a master at St Paul's and Harrow, and an international rugby footballer for Ireland, later head of Portora Royal School. January 1936 – 1938: H. H. Abbott, previously second master of Hymers College. 1938–1940: Francis Morier Porter (born 1900) 1943–1962: Francis Morier Porter, reappointed after Territorial Army war service (died 1983) Other staff Gladys Colton (1909–1986), schoolmistress at Beaminster 1937 to 1941, later head at the City of London School for Girls Margaret Barnes (1920–1987), history mistress, previously at Yeovil High School Notable former pupils Ralph Wightman (1901–1971), journalist, author, and regular guest on Any Questions?Sir John Toothill (1908–1986), general manager of Ferranti electronics Sir John Saint (1898–1987), agricultural chemist, chairman of the Barbados Public Service Commission See also List of English and Welsh endowed schools (19th century) Notes Further reading Derek Woodland, A History of the Beaminster and Netherbury Grammar SchoolLesley Rundle, The Beaminster & Netherbury Grammar School Year Book (Beaminster: OBOGA, 2011) Lesley Rundle " The Beaminster & Netherbury Grammar School Teachers Book" [Beaminster OBOGA, 2015] Richard Hine, History of Beaminster (Barnicott & Pearce, 1914; republished by Bibliolife DBA, 2015, ) External links Beaminster and Netherbury Grammar School 1876–1902 at nationalarchives.gov.uk Beaminster and Netherbury Grammar School 1945–1963 at nationalarchives.gov.uk Derek Woodland, Boarding in Beaminster (article from Dorset Life'', February 2008) 1962 disestablishments in England Beaminster Defunct grammar schools in England Defunct schools in Dorset Boarding schools in Dorset Boys' schools in Dorset Educational institutions established in the 1860s Educational institutions disestablished in 1962 1860s establishments in England Defunct boarding schools in England