The Cambridgeshire High School for Boys was founded as the Cambridge and County School for Boys in

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, England, in 1900.

History

It was later the Cambridge and County High School for Boys, and then finally the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys. It had around 600 boys in 1970, with 150 in the sixth form. It was transformed into Hills Road Sixth Form College in the 1974 reorganisation of education in

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. The Cambridgeshire High School for Girls became the

Long Road Sixth Form College Long Road Sixth Form College (LRSFC) is a public sector co-educational sixth form college in Cambridge, England. It is situated on Long Road, from which it draws its name, and is located next to the Cambridge Bio-Medical Campus which encompasse ...

, also in 1974.

Former headmasters

* 1900 Rev Charles John Napoleon Child * 1917 Peter Henderson (died 1917) * 1917 Rev Charles John Napoleon Child cting head* 1919 Major C. J. R. Whitmore * 1923 Arthur Brinley Mayne * 1946 Brinley Newton-John (father of

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) * 1954 Arthur William Eagling * 1969 Colin W. Hill (subsequently Principal of Hills Road Sixth Form College, 1974–1984)

Alumni

* Martin Amis (author) records in his autobiography "Experience" that he attended the school while his father

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and his mother Hilary were living off

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. * Roger 'Syd' Barrett of the rock band Pink Floyd attended the school. Barrett is remembered for the unprecedented way in which he resisted the school's strict code of conduct. * Charles Benstead, cricketer and Royal Navy officer * Sir John Bradfield – Founder of Cambridge Science Park, the first Science Park in Europe. * Peter Fluck, artist and sculptor, co-creator of the satirical TV show ''

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'' * Sir

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, economist, won the

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in 2003 *

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, early member of Pink Floyd. * Prof Freddy Marshall, marine biologist, and Professor of Zoology from 1972–7 at

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* David Parker, a Western Australian politician who served as Deputy Premier from 1988 until 1990. * Sidney Peters, Liberal MP from 1929 to 1945 for

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* Sir

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(former Permanent Secretary, Department for National Heritage/

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, Lord Chancellor's Department/

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) * Sir

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, botanist * Sir

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(former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence * The artist

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was a contemporary and friend of Syd Barrett and Roger Waters. He was the co-founder of the

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partnership, who designed record covers for, amongst others, Pink Floyd,

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, Yes, Genesis and Muse. * Mark Tout, the British

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of 1994. In the team was second in the World

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Championships. He subsequently made regular appearances as a team member on

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. * William (Bill) Tutte, mathematical genius responsible for breaking the Tunny Code (the Lorenz Code), at

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cypher more complex than the Enigma code, used by

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personally. Tutte went to Cambridgeshire High School on a scholarship in 1928, aged 11, and went on to

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in 1935.'Surveys in Combinatronics', 2003, CUP, Wensley C.D. After the war he was elected a

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. * Roger Waters of Pink Floyd. The album

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allegedly draws heavily upon Waters' experience of the school.

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, recalls the sadism of certain teachers, and Another Brick in the Wall part 2, which includes the famous lyrics "We don't need no education". In 2017, the 'Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains' exhibition at the

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in London exhibited the punishment book for Cambridgeshire High School for Boys open at a caning for Roger Waters, along with the cane itself.

Former teachers

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during the

. A photograph of him is on display in the National Portrait Gallery in London.

References

External links

Old Boys' Society

Photograph from 1900

Old postcard
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