Chris Morris, satirist, BAFTA winner Tom Morris, theatre director, producer and writer, and Tony Award winner Matt Greenhalgh, screenwriter, BAFTA winner Tim Hetherington, photographer, Oscar nominee Patrick Rock former government deputy director of policy for Prime Minister David Cameron and convicted sex offender* Bill Cash, MP for Stone, Staffordshire and prominent Brexiteer Patrick McGrath, novelist Notable masters Brian Ashton, history master and England rugby coach. Dick Greenwood, Assistant bursar and England rugby coach. Christopher Hollis, assistant master, history master (1925–1935), author, politician and president of the Oxford Union. Gerard Manley Hopkins, classics master and poet. Stephen Joseph Perry, astronomy master. Alfred Weld SJ, director of the Observatory, grandson of founder Thomas Weld (of Lulworth) Pietro Angelo Secchi, astronomy master, astrophysicist, and director of the Vatican Observatory. George Tyrrell, philosophy master and Roman Catholic modernist. Headmasters Since the college's foundation in Flanders in 1593, there have been 78 headmasters, (variably known as presidents, rectors, superiors and directors). Until the appointment of Giles Mercer in 1985, the headmaster had always been a member of the Society of Jesus. There have been three lay headmasters. style="font-size:100%;" St Omer, Bruges, Liège (1593–1794) See: Heads of St Omer, Bruges, Liège Stonyhurst (1794–present) Presidents Marmaduke Stone SJ (1794–1808) Nicholas Sewall SJ (1808–1813) John Weld SJ (1813–1816) Nicholas Sewall SJ (1816–1817) Rector and Headmaster Charles Plowden SJ (1817–1819) Joseph Tristram SJ (1819–1827) Richard Norris SJ (1827–1832) Richard Parker SJ (1832–1836) John Brownbill SJ (1836–1839) Francis Daniel SJ (1839–1841) Andrew Barrow SJ (1841–1845) Richard Norris SJ (1845–1846) Henry Walmesley SJ (1846–1847) Richard Sumner SJ (1847–1848) Francis Clough SJ (1848–1861) Joseph Johnson SJ (1861–1868) Charles Henry SJ (1868–1869) Edward Purbick SJ (1869–1879) William Eyre SJ (1879–1885) Reginald Colley SJ (1885–1891) Herman Walmesley SJ (1891–1898) Joseph Browne SJ (1898–1906) Pedro Gordon SJ (1906–1907) William Bodkin SJ (1907–1916) Edward O'Connor SJ (1916–1924) Walter Weld SJ (1924–1929) Richard Worsley SJ (1929–1932) Edward O'Connor SJ (1932–1938) Leo Belton SJ (1938–1945) Bernard Swindells SJ (1945–1952) Francis Vavasour SJ (1952–1958) Desmond Boyle SJ (1958–1961) Headmasters Frederick J. Turner SJ (1961–1963) George Earle SJ (1963–1971) Michael Bossy SJ (1971–1985) Giles Mercer (1985–1996) Adrian Aylward (1996–2006) Andrew Johnson (2006-2016) John Browne (2016-present) Headmasters of Hodder Place & St Mary's Hall (1807–present) See: Headmasters of Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall Controversies James Chaning-Pearce, a priest who taught at the school, was gaoled for sexually assaulting pupils between 1987 and 1995. The youngest victim was a boy of 12. In