Simon David Weale (born 16 September 1967) is a former English

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er and current director o
Bishop Cotton School, Shimla in India
His previous role was as headmaster of

Shebbear College Shebbear College is an independent day and boarding school for girls and boys aged 4 – 18 situated in Shebbear, Devon, England. The school's 85-acre rural campus is situated in the Devon countryside. It was founded by the Bible Christian Soc ...

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Early life

Weale was born in

Knightsbridge Knightsbridge is a residential and retail district in central London, south of Hyde Park. It is identified in the London Plan as one of two international retail centres in London, alongside the West End. Toponymy Knightsbridge is an ancient ...

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. After attending

Westminster City School Westminster City School is a state-funded secondary academy for boys, with a mixed sixth form, in Westminster, London. The school educates over 800 students, with links to more than 100 different cultures, in a central London location. The sch ...

in London he went up to

Keble College, Oxford Keble College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its main buildings are on Parks Road, opposite the University Museum and the University Parks. The college is bordered to the north by Keble Road, t ...

Cricket career

A right-handed

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who bowled

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, Weale made his first-class debut for

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against

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in 1986. From 1986 to 1990, he represented the University in 20 first-class matches, the last of which came against

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. In his 20 first-class matches for the University, he scored 365 runs at a

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of 17.38, with 2 half centuries and a high score of 76. In the field he took 3 catches. With the ball he took 15 wickets at a

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of 97.26, with best figures of 3/130. Weale also played a single first-class match during this time for a combined Oxford and Cambridge Universities team against the touring

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in 1987. In 1999, he represented the

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in a single

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match against Cumberland in the

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. In his only List A match, he scored an unbeaten 9 runs and with the ball he took a single wicket at a cost of 24 runs.

Teaching career

After teaching history at

Judd School The Judd School (often known simply as Judd) is a voluntary aided grammar school in Tonbridge, Kent, England. It was established in 1888 at Stafford House on East Street in Tonbridge, where it remained for eight years before moving to its present ...

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Latymer Upper School (Slowly Therefore Surely) , established = , closed = , sister_school = Godolphin and Latymer School , type = Public schoolIndependent day school , head_label = H ...

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, head of Sixth Form

Reigate Grammar School Reigate Grammar School is a 2–18 mixed independent day school in Reigate, Surrey, England. It was established in 1675 by Henry Smith. History The school was founded as a free school for poor boys in 1675 by Alderman Henry Smith with Jon Wil ...

in Surrey and deputy head

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, he took up the position of headmaster at Shebbear College in Devon in 2013. In 2019 he became director of Bishop Cotton School,

Shimla Shimla (; ; also known as Simla, List of renamed Indian cities and states#Himachal Pradesh, the official name until 1972) is the capital and the largest city of the States and union territories of India, northern Indian state of Himachal Prade ...

, India.

References

External links

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