Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Michael Hoban (7 October 1921 - 6 July 2003) was a teacher of classics, and Head Master of Harrow School from 1971 to 1981. Hoban was a gifted teacher, a scholarly and private man of great integrity, a warm person with a clear moral purpose. He headed Harrow at a difficult time for British public schools generally, with unfavourable political environment and many financial pressures. Despite sometimes public criticism, Hoban responded with cost-saving centralisation of pupils’ feeding, and of academic departments, while refurbishing houses. Innovations included the new Knoll boarding house, physics and mathematics schools, and a golf course. Life Events 1921 Born in British Guiana 1920’s Father dies; spends two years in a British orphanage 1934-9 Scholarship to Charterhouse School 1940-5 Spends World War II as a captain with the Westminster Dragoons, mentioned in dispatches 1946-9 Reads Greats at University College, Oxford 1947 Marries Jasmine Holmes, the daughter of his Charterhouse house master 1949-52 Assistant master at Uppingham School teaching classics 1952-9 Assistant master at Shrewsbury School teaching classics 1960-4 Headmaster of St Edmund's School, Canterbury 1964-71 Headmaster of Bradfield School 1971 Head Master of Harrow 1974 IRA bomb explodes at one of the masters' flats 1975 Pupil who set fire to The Grove house stands trial at the Old Bailey 1976 Sir Eric Miller withdraws his son from Harrow, alleging anti-Semitism. 1981 retires 2003 dies aged 81 This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.