Rotherham Grammar School

History

Provosts' schoolmasters

• Edmund Carter, 1482–1483
• John Bockyng, 1483
• John More, from 1501
• Robert Collier, from 1508
• Richard Bradshaw, 1524–1525
• William Drapour, from 1535
• Thomas Snell, from 1548

  Masters and Headmasters

• William Beck, 1566–1567
• Thomas Woodhouse, from 1568
• Robert Sanderson, from 1583
• Smith, from 1616
• Barrow, from 1620
• Bonner, ????–????
• Charles Hoole Rayte, from 1633
• Graunt, ????-????
• Barton, ????
• Withers, from 1704
• Rev. Christopher Stevenson, from 1725
• Rev. Davis Pennell, from 1746
• John Russell, from 1763
• Tennant, from 1776
• Rev. Richard U. Burton, from 1780
• Rev. Benjamin Birkett, from 1810
• Rev. Joshua Nalson, from 1839
• Edwin A. Fewtrell, from 1841
• R. A. Long-Phillips, from 1863
• Rev. John J. Christie, from 1864
• Rev. George Ohlson, from 1878
• Rev. Thos. Granger Hutt, from 1883
• Rev. Hargreaves Heap, from 1884
• W. A. Barron, from 1919
• Frederick William Field, from 1924
• Gilbert E. Gunner, 1949–August 1966
• Mr Arthur Prust, September 1966–August 1967

  Notable pupils

• Bishop Robert Sanderson, moderator of the 1661 Savoy Conference. Two of the prayers in the Church of England's Book of Common Prayer have often been attributed to Sanderson. These are the "general thanksgiving" and the "prayer for all conditions of men".
• Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin - founded the Austin Motor Company, and Conservative MP from 1918-24 for Birmingham King's Norton
• Sir Donald Bailey - inventor of the Bailey bridge.
• Prof Robert Auty, Professor of Comparative Slavonic Philology from 1965-78 at the University of Oxford, and President from 1964 to 1967 of the British University Association of Slavists
• Prof George Bentley, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery from 1982-2002 at the University College London Medical School
• Sidney Brazier, bomb-disposal expert
• Stanley Crowther, Labour MP from 1976-92 for Rotherham
• Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer from 1998-2010
• Alfred Goldstein CBE, civil engineer, responsible for designing the M23, the Belfast Transportation Plan, Clifton Bridge in Nottingham, Winthorpe Bridge at Newark, the Itchen Bridge in Southampton, and the Elizabeth Bridge in Cambridge
• George Charles Gray, organist
• John Harris
• Robert Jenkins CBE, President from 1951-3 and 1973-5 of The Welding Institute
• Walter Jenkins, Vice Chancellor from 1953-8 of the University of Dhaka
• Prof Harry Kay CBE, Vice Chancellor from 1973-84 of the University of Exeter, Professor of Psychology from 1960-73 at the University of Sheffield, and President from 1971-2 of the British Psychological Society
• Donald McWhinnie, theatre director
• John Rose,
• Sgt. Ian McKay, VC, Falklands campaign.
• Prof John Brooks, Professor of Food Microbiology from 2007-2014 at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
• Prof. Alan Hedge, Professor of Human Factors and Ergonomics from 1987-2019 at Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.