Michael Hoban
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Brian Michael Stanislaus Hoban (7 October 1921 – 6 July 2003), known as Michael, was a teacher of classics, and Headmaster of Harrow School from 1971 to 1981.
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.
[edit] Life events
- 1921 Born in British Guiana
- 1920s 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 Retired
- 2003 Died aged 81
