Antony Clark

Antony Roy Clark MA (Cantab.) (born 7 November 1956) is a South African schoolmaster and educationalist, formerly a first-class cricketer, currently headmaster of Malvern College.[1]

Early life

Born at Grahamstown, Cape Province, South Africa, in 1956, Clark is the son of Roger and Betty Clark. He was educated at St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown, and Rhodes University, where he graduated BA and HDE, then at Downing College, Cambridge, where he held the Douglas Smith Scholarship and graduated MA in 1981. At Cambridge he was, on occasion, a member of the University's cricket XI.[1][2] and was president of the Downing College MCR.

Schoolmaster

Clark taught at Westerford High School, Cape Town, from 1984 to 1990. He then worked at Liberty Life before being appointed as Headmaster of St Joseph's Marist College, Cape Town, in 1992 and of his own old school, St Andrew's College, in 1994. In 2002 he moved as head to Gresham's School in Norfolk, England. Thereafter in 2008, he was appointed at Malvern College in Worcestershire[3] for his fourth headship.

Clark has recently been announced Rector of Michaelhouse in Balgowan, South Africa and is expected to take over in April 2019 for his fifth headship.

Private life

In 1981, Clark married Dr Brigitte Jennifer Lang, and they have one son and two daughters.[1]

He gives his recreations in the British Who's Who as cricket, squash, chess, reading, and hiking.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 CLARK, Antony Roy, Headmaster, Gresham's School, Holt, since 2002 in Who's Who 2007 (London, A. & C. Black, 2007)
  2. ↑ Antony Roy Clark at cricketarchive.com (accessed 23 May 2008)
  3. ↑ "Headmaster's Welcome". Archived from the original on 2012-03-18. Retrieved 2011-07-21.
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