Cambridgeshire High School for Boys

History

Former headmasters

• 1900 Rev Charles John Napoleon Child
• 1917 Peter Henderson
• 1917 Rev Charles John Napoleon Child
• 1919 Major C. J. R. Whitmore
• 1923 Arthur Brinley Mayne
• 1946 Brinley Newton-John
• 1954 Arthur William Eagling
• 1969 Colin W. Hill

  Alumni

• Martin Amis records in his autobiography "Experience" that he attended the school while his father Kingsley Amis and his mother Hilary were living off Madingley Road.
• Roger 'Syd' Barrett of the rock band Pink Floyd attended the school. Barrett is remembered for the unprecedented way in which he resisted the school's strict code of conduct.
• Paul Barry, largest shareholder and owner of Cambridge United Football Club.
• Charles Benstead, cricketer and Royal Navy officer
• Sir John Bradfield – Founder of Cambridge Science Park, the first Science Park in Europe.
• Peter Fluck, artist and sculptor
• Sir Clive Granger, economist, won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2003
• Bob Klose, early member of Pink Floyd.
• Prof Freddy Marshall, marine biologist, and Professor of Zoology from 1972–7 at Queen Mary, University of London
• David Parker, a Western Australian politician who served as Deputy Premier from 1988 until 1990.
• Sidney Peters, Liberal MP from 1929 to 1945 for Huntingdonshire
• Sir Hayden Phillips
• Sir David Robinson
• William T. Stearn, botanist
• Sir Kevin Tebbit Tutte, mathematical genius responsible for breaking the Tunny Code, at Bletchley Park in 1941. Tunny was an extensively-used German Second World War cypher more complex than the Enigma code, used by Hitler personally. Tutte went to Cambridgeshire High School on a scholarship in 1928, aged 11, and went on to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1935. After the war he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
• Roger Waters of Pink Floyd. The album The Wall allegedly draws heavily upon Waters' experience of the school. The Happiest Days of Our Lives, recalls the sadism of certain teachers, and Another Brick in the Wall part 2, which includes the famous lyrics "We don't need no education". In 2017, the 'Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains' exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London exhibited the punishment book for Cambridgeshire High School for Boys open at a caning for Roger Waters, along with the cane itself.

  Former teachers

• Shaun Wylie, mathematician, who was one of the codebreakers at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. A photograph of him is on display in the National Portrait Gallery in London.