Head Masters of Blundell's
| Century | Head Master | School Events | |
| 17th | 1604 - 1647 | Revd Samuel Butler | 1601 Death of Peter Blundell 1604 Opening of Blundell's at Lowman Green 1610 First Sidney Sussex scholar nominated 1615 First Blundell's Balliol Scholar 1626 Exeter Assizes held in the Schoolroom 1645 School used as Fairfax's HQ in seige of Tiverton Castle |
| 1648 - 1651 | Revd Henry Osborne | ||
| 1651 - 1669 | Revd Henry Batten | 1660 Charles II lands at Dover; celebrated as a holiday until 1884 | |
| 1669 - 1684 | Revd George Hume | ||
| 1684 - 1698 | Revd John Sanders | ||
| 18th | 1698 - 1730 | Revd William Rayner | 1705 Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Gypsies, joins the school 1725 First known OB Day |
| 1730 - 1733 | Revd Samual Smith | 1730 Feoffees forbid cockfighting on Shrove Tuesday | |
| 1733 - 1734 | Revd John Jones | ||
| 1734 - 1740 | Revd Samual Wesley | ||
| 1740 - 1757 | Revd William Daddo | ||
| 1757 - 1775 | Revd Philip Atherton | ||
| 1775 - 1797 | Revd Philip Keats | 1780's Two OBs head of Oxford Colleges 1787 School rebels against Usher, Thomas Wood |
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| 19th | 1797 - 1823 | Revd Dr William Richards | 1804 Bicentenary 1809 Jack Russell enters Blundell's 1815 Numbers of pupils rise to 200 1820 Master Richards organises first Speech Day 1823 Teaching of Maths begins |
| 1823 - 1834 | Revd Dr Alldersey Dicken | 1828 School rooms heated for the first time | |
| 1834 - 1847 | Revd Henry Sanders | 1838 Legal dispute with Tiverton begins 1844 Income from school lands rises to £900 1846 Chancery decision banning boarders; numbers fall to 31 |
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| 1847 - 1874 | Revd John Hughes | 1861 First issues of the Blundellian 1865 Licensed boarding houses allowed 1865 Sir John Heathcoat Amory becomes a school governor |
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| 1874 - 1917 | A L Francis | 1877 The Russell, an arduous annual school run, begins 1879 Sale of Prawle lands to raise funds 1882 The school moves to Horsdon; SH and OH open 1883 North Close opens; Chapel consecrated 1887 Westlake and Petergate founded 1900 Arrival of Nobel Prize winner A V Hill, and T Knox Shaw 1904 Tercentenary 1911 Cole's Chemistry Lab opened |
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| 20th | 1917 - 1930 | Revd A E Wynne | 1926 FH opens; extension of Chapel |
| 1930 - 1933 | Revd A R Wallace | ||
| 1934 - 1943 | Rt Revd N V Gorton | ||
| 1943 - 1947 | Revd R L Roberts | ||
| 1947 - 1959 | J S Carter | 1954 Gym built 1956 History block and Physics labs open |
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| 1959 - 1971 | Revd J M Stanton | 1967 Dining Hall and new Big School opened by the Queen Mother | |
| 1971 - 1981 | A C S Gimson | 1975 Arrival of first girl. 1977 First girls' house (GH) opens 1980 NC fire |
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| 1981 - 1992 | A J D Rees | 1984 Sports Hall opens 1989 Ondaatje Hall opens |
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| 21st | 1992 - 2004 | J Leigh | 1993 Girls admitted at 13; NC becomes a girls' house 1997 SH becomes a junior (11-13) house 2000 St Aubyn's School opens 'on campus' 2002 Modern Languages block and Beale Centre open 2004 Quatercentenary; new Westlake opens |
| 2004 - | I R Davenport | 2007 Popham Academic Centre opens 2007 Music School extension opens |
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