Herbert Douglas Anthony


Herbert Douglas Anthony M.A., B.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.A.S., Lieut.-Colonel R.A.E.C., Chief Inspector of Army Education.
was an English mathematician, the headmaster of Elmfield College and of Kilburn Grammar School.
Anthony attended Latymer Upper School and was an open mathematics scholar at Queens' College, Cambridge.
In the First World War, he served in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and the Royal Engineers. After the war, he became a Wesleyan minister, and taught mathematics at Richmond College and then Westminster College, a school for teachers. He became headmaster of Elmfield, near York, England, in 1929, and was later headmaster of the Kilburn Grammar School in London. After serving in the army again during the Second World War, he was promoted to Colonel and became Chief Inspector of Army Education at the War Office.
He wrote several books.
He left Elmfield in contentious circumstances - see his letter to the Yorkshire Herald on Saturday 2 April 1932 and reference in Elmfield archives.

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