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Beyond the Barrier | Spring 2016
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THREE HEADMASTERS IN ONE YEAR AT LGS
Paul Fisher The end of an era… Paul Fisher retires after 18 years of service as the Headmaster of Loughborough Grammar School.
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ollowing his degree in Classics from Oxford University Paul started with a career in first class cricket playing for Oxford University, Middlesex and Worcestershire, where he was regarded as a fine wicket-keeper that couldn’t bat! After teaching at Marlborough and Prior Park, he became Headmaster of Mount St Mary’s College in January 1991, at the time the youngest ever Head in HMC. He arrived at LGS in 1998 as the 34th Headmaster, so he retired having been a Head for 25 years, 18 of them at LGS. His experience in boarding provided the basis of what he achieved at the school over those 18 years. When he arrived our boarding relied entirely on the domestic market and was, as a consequence, in decline. He soon realised that the future lay in the Far East – firstly Hong Kong and then extending to mainland China. I don’t think anyone would have imagined that it would be necessary to build an extension to Denton and completely refurbish the 150 year old School House before he retired. Even in his final term he headed to Vietnam to develop our markets still further.
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