of the pupils are either weekly or full-time boarders. The Senior school maintains six boarding houses, three of which are for girls (Nutfield, Clarendon and Grange) and three for boys (Eddystone, School and Farm). The Preparatory school operates one boarding house with a floor for boys and a floor for girls (Hatton). There are many traditions in each house, as well as many inter-house competitions throughout the year. Students are allowed to visit the City of Bath each weekend. Lessons take place on Saturday mornings with sporting matches against other schools taking place on most Saturday afternoons. Head Masters/Principals The following have been Head Masters or Principals of Monkton Combe School: Notable members of staff The Revd. R.W. Ryde, 1866–1909, Classics Master Mr. A.S. Sellick, 1878–1958, Cricket Master Mr. G.F. Graham Brown, 1891–1942, History Master and former pupil Mr. F. Vallis, 1896–1957, Association Football and Cricket Master Mr. T.M. Watson, 1913–1994, French Master Mr. N.D. Botton, 1954–, History Master Mr. M. Wells, 1979–, Rowing Master Notable alumni 19th Century George Somes Layard, 1857–1925, leading barrister, journalist and man of letters Harry Martindale Speechly, 1866–1951, leading Canadian doctor Montague Waldegrave, 5th Baron Radstock, 1867–1953, peer Count Vladimir Alekseyevich Bobrinsky, 1868–1927, Tsarist politician from the Second to the Fourth Duma Count Paul Bobrinsky, 1869–1919, Peter's twin and Russian counter-revolutionary Count Peter Bobrinsky, 1869–1932, Paul's twin and Russian counter-revolutionary Harry Colt, 1869–1951, widely regarded as the father of golf course architecture Ernest Crosbie Trench CBE, TD, 1869–1960, British civil engineer Sir Ernest Wills, 3rd Baronet CStJ, JP, 1869–1958, part-owner of W. D. & H. O. Wills and Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire Edwyn Bevan OBE, FBA, 1870–1943, British philosopher and Hellenistic historian Archibald Kennedy, 4th Marquess of Ailsa DL, JP, FSRGS, 1873–1943, British peer, barrister and soldier Horatio Powys-Keck, 1873–1952, first class cricketer Alfred Young FRS, 1873–1940, mathematician and inventor of the Young diagram and Young tableau Lieutenant Colonel Richard Annesley West VC, DSO & Bar, MC, 1878–1918, recipient of the Victoria Cross for sacrificing his life for his men Lieutenant Colonel Eric Marshall, CBE, MC, 1879–1963, Antarctic explorer in Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition Frank Lugard Brayne CIE, CSI, MC, VD, 1882–1952, administrator in the Indian Civil Service The Right Revd. William Thompson CBE, DD, 1885–1975, Bishop of Iran The Venerable Hugh Norton OBE, 1890–1969, Archdeacon of Sudbury The Right Revd. Francis Graham Brown, OBE, DD, 1891–1942, Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and Bishop of