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Dr
Ralph Townsend is Headmaster of
Winchester College. He was previously Headmaster of
Oundle School and before that Headmaster of
Sydney Grammar School.He was educated at
Scotch College, Perth, from which he went on to read English at the
University of Western Australia, having won a Commonwealth Scholarship. He then began his graduate studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury. After brief teaching appointments at
Dover College and
Abingdon School, he proceeded to further study at Oxford. He was first Senior Scholar at
Keble College, then a Junior Research Fellow, Tutor and Dean of Degrees at
Lincoln College. He taught in the Theology Faculty at Oxford.
Dr Townsend took up a teaching post at
Eton College in 1985. He left as Head of English in 1989 to become Headmaster of
Sydney Grammar School. Whilst in Sydney, Townsend was Patron of the
Australian Musicians' Academy and President of the
New South Wales Classical Association. After ten years in that post, he returned to England to become Headmaster of Oundle School. In 2005 he was appointed Headmaster of Winchester.
Dr Townsend has written books, articles and reviews in the areas of church history, religious literature and education. He has been a Governor of Terra Nova School (Cheshire) 1999-2003, Old Buckenham Hall School (Suffolk) 1999-2006,
Ampleforth College (Yorkshire) 2003-2006, Bramcote Lorne School (Nottinghamshire) 2003-2005 and Mowden Hall School (Northumberland 2000-2007). He is currently a member of the Council of the
University of Southampton, a Governor of The Pilgrims' School (Winchester), St Swithun's School (Winchester) and Worth School (Sussex), a Trustee of the Cothill Educational Trust and he's an Adviser to the African Leadership Academy, the Raffles Institution of Singapore, the
National College of Music (London), the Church Schools Company and the United Learning Trust. He is an Honorary Liveryman of the
Grocers' Company.
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