Cyril Norwood

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Sir Cyril Norwood (15 September 1875 - 13 March 1956) served as Headmaster of Bristol Grammar School and Harrow School as well as President of St. John's College, Oxford.

The son of the Rev. Samuel Norwood, of Whalley, Lancashire, Norwood was educated at the Merchant Taylor's School and St. John's, Oxford. After passing the Home Civil Service exam, he joined the Admiralty in 1899, but left in 1901 to pursue a career in education.

He was a classics Master at Leeds Grammar School (1901-1906), before serving as Headmaster of Bristol Grammar School (1906-1916), the Master of Marlborough College (1917-1925), Headmaster of Harrow (1926-1934) and President of St. John's, Oxford, from 1934-1946. In 1943 he published the "Norwood Report" on secondary school education.

As well as his role in Education he also wrote an introduction for The British Encyclopaedia in 1933.

He retired to Iwerne Minster in Dorset where he died in 1956. He was married to Catherine Margaret Kilner in December 1901 and was knighted in 1937.

A Building is named after him as part of Bristol Grammar School's Elton Road Houses, and is primarily used for the teaching of Modern Languages.