Ronald Gurner

1890 (age 49)

London, United Kingdom

Educated at Merchant Taylors" School, London, Gurner went to Oxford University, where he was a classics scholar at Saint Johns. After illness in his final year he was awarded an aegrotat degree. He took up part-time teaching positions at Haileybury College in 1912, before moving to Clifton College in 1913, and to a permanent post at Marlborough College in September 1913. He became Headmaster of Strand School, Brixton, in 1920 at the age of thirty, and was appointed Headmaster of King Edward VII School (Sheffield) in spring 1926. In the summer of 1927, he resigned to take up the vacant Headship at Whitgift School in Croydon.

Ronald Gurner

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1890-1939) was a headmaster and writer who was born in London.

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Street John"s College.

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Educated at Merchant Taylors" School, London, Gurner went to Oxford University, where he was a classics scholar at Saint Johns. After illness in his final year he was awarded an aegrotat degree. He took up part-time teaching positions at Haileybury College in 1912, before moving to Clifton College in 1913, and to a permanent post at Marlborough College in September 1913.

He became Headmaster of Strand School, Brixton, in 1920 at the age of thirty, and was appointed Headmaster of King Edward VII School (Sheffield) in spring 1926.

In the summer of 1927, he resigned to take up the vacant Headship at Whitgift School in Croydon.

Achievements

He gained a First in honour moderations and won a university Latin prize. In 1914 he was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade and served two years in the trenches before being wounded at Arras (where he won the Military Cross) in 1917 by a sniper.

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