Tom Wheare
Template:Short description Thomas David Wheare FRSA (born 1944) is an English schoolmaster and headmaster.[1]
Biography
Wheare was educated at the Dragon School and Magdalen College School in Oxford. He then went on to King's College, Cambridge[2] (gaining an exhibition, studying History, and singing in the College Choir) and Christ Church, Oxford (studying Education for a Dip.Ed. and acting as a lay clerk in the Christ Church Cathedral Choir).Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
During his career as a teacher, he has been a Housemaster at Shrewsbury School and Assistant Master at Eton College. From 1983 to 2005, he was Head of Bryanston School in Dorset.[3][4] The Tom Wheare Music School at Bryanston, designed by Hopkins Architects,[5][6] was opened in September 2014.[7][8]
Wheare was an active member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), serving as Treasurer from 1993 to 1999, and chairman in 2000. He has been a governor of a number of schools over the years, including Blackheath High School, the Dragon School, Exeter School, and Port Regis School. He is Deputy Chairman of the Girls' Day School Trust[9] and has been a member of the executive committee of the Association of Governing Bodies of Independent Schools (AGBIS).
Wheare is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He edits the annual Which School? books[10][11] and the HMC magazine, Conference & Common Room.
He is the son of Sir Kenneth Wheare and Lady (Joan) Wheare,[12] is married and has two daughters. He lives in Wiltshire.[1]
References
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- ↑ Holdsworth, Angela (ed.), Bryanston Reflections: Et nova et vetera. London: Third Millennium Publishing, 2005. Template:ISBN.
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- ↑ Wheare, T.D. (ed.), Which School? 2008, John Catt Educational Ltd, 2007. Template:ISBN.
- ↑ Wheare, T.D. (ed.), Which School? 2009, John Catt Educational Ltd, 2008.
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