Ripon Grammar School

Admission

History

Motto

Parents' ballot

Headmasters

• pre 1348 Richard Chamberlain,
• pre 1371 – post 1380 Master Thomas,
• pre 1545 – post 1477 Henry Singleton,
• 1545 – 1553 Edmund Brown,
• 1571 John Nettleton,
• 1608 Christopher Lyndall,
• 1622 John Ashmore,
• 1623–1650 Richard Palmes,
• 1650–1661 Roger Holmes,
• 1661–1676 Charles Oxley,
• 1676–1681 George Loup,
• 1681–1685 Ralph Cottingham,
• 1685–1704 Thomas Thomson,
• 1704–1721 Thomas Lloyd,
• 1721–1730 John Barber,
• 1731–1737 Thomas Stevens,
• 1737 William Scott,
• 1738 James Topham,
• 1738–1771 George Hyde,
• 1772–1798 Solomon Robinson,
• 1798–1809 Isaac Cook,
• 1809–1811 William Ewbank,
• 1812–1851 William Plues,
• 1851–1872 J F MacMichael,
• 1872–1879 F A Hooper,
• 1879–1890 A B Haslam,
• 1890–1895 W Yorke Fausset,
• 1895–1919 C C S Bland,
• 1935–1957 W J Strachan,
• 1957–1974 Robert Atkinson,
• 1974–1991 Brian Stanley,
• 1992–2004 Alan Jones,
• 2004–2017 Martin Pearman,
• 2017–Present Jonathan Webb

  Former teachers

• Thomas Ashworth, Headteacher of Ermysted's Grammar School in Skipton from 1998–2008

  Old Riponians

• William Hague, former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief of The Guardian from summer 2015
• Richard Hammond, television presenter – Top Gear/Total Wipeout/Richard Hammond's Blast Lab
• David Curry, former Member of Parliament for Skipton & Ripon
• Bruce Oldfield, fashion designer
• Matthew Hutton
• Prof David George Kendall, statistician, Professor of Mathematical Statistics from 1962–85 at the University of Cambridge
• Peter Squires, British Lion & England Rugby Union International/Yorkshire County Cricketer
• Prof Peter Toyne, CBE, 1st Vice-Chancellor from 1992–2000 of Liverpool John Moores University, and Rector from 1986–92 of Liverpool Polytechnic
• Paul Hullah, writer
• Jack Laugher, British Olympic Diver & Travian expert
• Peter Marshall CMG, Ambassador to Algeria from 1995–6
• The Venerable Maurice Edwards OBE, Chaplain-in-Chief of the RAF from 1940–4
• Francis Pigou, Dean of Bristol from 1891 to 1916
• Beilby Porteus, Georgian Bishop of Chester and London
• Rt Rev William Stubbs the Victorian Bishop of Oxford from 1889–1901, and Regius Professor of Modern History from 1866–84