at Bedford School was sports master and former England batsman Derek Randall. Other famous Bedford School sportsmen include England rugby internationals Martin Bayfield and Andy Gomarsall; the rower Jack Beresford, winner of five Olympic medals; and 1924 Olympic 100-metre sprint gold medalist Harold Abrahams. Headmasters 2014–present James Hodgson (Wellington College; Cambridge University; Durham University) 2008–2014 John Moule (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford; Warden of Radley College) 1990–2008 Philip Evans (Churchill College, Cambridge; Imperial College London) 1988–1990 Michael Barlen (Hertford College, Oxford; New College, Oxford) 1986–1988 Sidney Miller (Clifton College; Jesus College, Cambridge; Harvard University; headmaster of Kingston Grammar School) 1975–1986 Ian Jones (Bishop's Stortford College; St John's College, Cambridge) 1955–1975 William Brown (Bedford School; Pembroke College, Cambridge; headmaster of the King's School, Ely) 1951–1955 Clarence Seaman (Christ's Hospital; St John's College, Oxford; rector of the Edinburgh Academy; headmaster of Christ's Hospital) 1928–1951 Humfrey Grose-Hodge (Marlborough College; Pembroke College, Cambridge) 1910–1928 Reginald Carter (Clifton College; Balliol College, Oxford; Fellow and tutor of Lincoln College, Oxford; Rector of the Edinburgh Academy) 1903–1910 John Edward King (Clifton College; Fellow and tutor of Lincoln College, Oxford; high master of Manchester Grammar School; headmaster of Clifton College) 1874–1903 James Surtees Phillpotts (Winchester College; Fellow of New College, Oxford) 1855–1874 Frederick Fanshawe (Winchester College; Balliol College, Oxford; Fellow and tutor of Exeter College, Oxford) 1811–1855 John Brereton (Winchester College; Fellow of New College, Oxford) 1810–1811 William Stratford (Christ Church, Oxford; headmaster of Thame Grammar School) 1773–1810 John Hooke (Fellow of New College, Oxford; headmaster of Thame Grammar School) 1739–1773 George Bridle (Fellow of New College, Oxford) 1718–1739 Matthew Priaulx (Fellow of New College, Oxford) 1683–1718 Nicholas Aspinall (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) 1681–1683 William Willis (Fellow of New College, Oxford) 1672–1681 John Longworth (Fellow of New College, Oxford) 1665–1672 John Butler (Winchester College; University College, Oxford) 1663–1665 John Allanson (Chaplain of New College, Oxford) 1660–1663 William Varney (reinstated as Master at the Restoration of the Monarchy) 1656–1660 George Butler (Fellow of New College, Oxford) 1636–1656 William Varney (deprived of the Mastership during the Protectorate due to his Royalist sympathies) 1610–1636 Daniel Gardener (Fellow of New College, Oxford) 1601–1610 Robert Barker (Fellow of New College, Oxford) c1599–1601 Henry Whitaker 1597-c1599 Richard Butcher 1587–1597 Master Chambers 1577–1587 Francis White (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; Bishop of Carlisle; Bishop of Norwich; Bishop of Ely) 1573–1577 William Smyth (Canon of Lincoln Cathedral) 1548–1573 Edmund Greene (Fellow of New College, Oxford) Edmund Greene was