Hutton Grammar School

• 1805. Rev Richard Rowe died on 13 June 1805, while headmaster.[9][10]
• 1807. Rev Mr Whitehead.[11]
• 1839 to 1851. Rev William Harrison.[12][13]
• 1851. Rev John Ketton, appointed May 1851.[14]
• 1861. Rev John Ketton.[15]
• 1871. Rev John Ketton.[16]
• 1878. Rev Benjamin Corke Huntly M.A. Appointed November 1878, died age 46, while headmaster, on 9 May 1890.[17][18]
• 1891. Rev Thomas Joseph Cunningham M.A..[19][20]
• 1901. Rev Thomas Joseph Cunningham M.A..[21]
• 1911. Rev Thomas Joseph Cunningham M.A..[22]
• 1920 to 1938. Lieutenant Colonel Reverend Charles P. Hines.[23]
• 1938 to 1951. Harold Henry Abbott, the poet.[24]
• 1951 to 1963. Charles William Lloyd. Left upon appointment as headmaster at Alleyn's School.[25][26]
• 1963 (Autumn term). Mr A E Ashburner, acting headmaster.
• 1964. Mr J Nelson.[27]
• 2000. Mr G Armstrong.[28]
• 2005. Mr D Pearson, appointed April 2005.[29]
• 2016. Mr Mark Bradshaw, appointed April 2016.[30]

The main school received an Ofsted report in May 2017 and achieved the grade of "good",[31] with its main campus featuring excellent facilities. It has a history of well above average reports and has been considered one of the top places for local males to attend. Since 1989, it has had a huge increase of students coming from inner-city Preston and travelling from further afield to attend. This is due to its good reputation, compared to that of other local education services.

The school offers over 15 different types of sport to take part in. Over the years, the amount of sports has increased dramatically. The main sports at the school are rugby in the winter term and cricket in the summer term. The following is a list of sports the school offers:

Athletics, Aussie Rules, Badminton, Basketball, Chess, Cricket, Cross country running, Dance, Football, Gaelic Football, Gymnastics, Handball, Hockey, Rugby Union, Swimming, Table Tennis, Tennis and Volleyball.

Hutton consists of five houses, paying respect through names, to the history in the area and to ancient noble families. They include:

• Fleetwood – In 1535, the Dissolution of the Monasteries saw Penwortham Priory dissolve. Sir Henry Fleetwood was one of Henry VIII's commissioners, foresees the Protestant reformation. Fleetwood made sure Hutton Grammar was a fully instated Church of England school and had a house named after him.
• Hines – Named in honour of Lieutenant Colonel Reverend C.P. Hines. He was a headmaster at Hutton from 1920 to 1938, local Church of England promoter and a nobleman with strong relations to the early builders of the school.
• Rawsthorne – Named in honour of the Rawsthorne Family, who once occupied Penwortham Priory before it was demolished to make way for new housing in the 1920s. They contributed the money they made from sales of land and their house prior to destruction, to the school and grounds. They rebuilt their house to the road behind where the grammar school stands today.
• Walton – Named in honour of William Walton, the co-founder of the school. The coat of arms were adopted by the school in 1905, originally devised by a member of the Walton family from Preston, who believed that he was a descendant of the founding family of the school, the three swans were derived from an early medieval coat of arms for the same surname.
• Pearson - Named in honour of the previous Head Teacher, David Pearson. "I took up the post in April 2005 and the headship at Hutton has been the defining chapter of my career. At that time, the school was ready to enter a new phase in its long history and there have been significant changes in all aspects of the provision over the last ten years. The school has considerable strengths for the next head teacher to build on, and a staff with the creativity to work with a new leader in building the next phase of development."- Mr D Pearson

Under headmaster David Pearson the school had been redeveloped, with facilities such as a new gymnasium and I.T and Mathematics suites installed in 2004. The Music Department now has recording studios and technology suites.

In September 2005, new maths facilities were opened. Following the opening of the new maths suites in the Autumn of 2005, the buildings were used for housing of the resistant materials and art until the end of the academic year of 2006, while the departments were being refurbished.

The old buildings were demolished in the months of July and August 2006 and then in July 2006, the new music and drama suites were opened. Following a large interest in the Sixth Form, due to outstanding results, the Sixth Form was relocated to a new building in September 2010.

Hutton has many internal and external organisations, one of these being the Old Huttonians Association which is open to all previous attendees of the school. The association organises dinners and reunions on a semi regular basis.

There is also a well established Masonic Lodge which meets at the school. Old Huttonian Lodge no. 7614 is part of the Leyland Group of Lodges and Chapters and meets 5 times a year. A member of the Federation of School Lodges, it draws membership from current and past teachers, past pupils and their close relatives.[32]

The recently founded debating society is another merit of the school, recently winning the national 'Debating Matters' competition at the Royal Society of Medicine, having never previously entered. Nearly 200 schools entered and the Hutton team won all 8 of their debates.[33] The 2015 Hutton debating team won the Lancashire regional heat, which sent them through to the North West & North Wales regional final, which they went on to win. Hutton eventually lost out in the group stages of the national finals in June 2015. However, a year later, the 2016 cohort reached the final of the national finals, finishing runners up. It was the first time Hutton had reached the national finals in consecutive years.

Another organization, the Hutton Grammar Economics Society, is open to all present students of the school and welcomes ex-students too. The school also had its own radio station, Hutt On Air which first broadcast on 9 July 2010 and was broadcast to the students (and sixth form) via the school computers and internal AVOID systems.

• Steve Borthwick, England Rugby Captain
• Brian Cookson OBE, former President of the International Cycling Union [34] and British Cycling[35]
• Dr Neil Dewhurst,[36] President, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh[37] from 2010 to 2014
• Peter Elleray, Formula One and 24 Hours of Le Mans Racing car designer.
• Edward Gardner, former Royal Navy Commander, survivor of two ship sinkings, barrister and later, a politician
• Dr Graham S Jackson,[38] Reader UCL Institute of Neurology, Co-founder of D-Gen Ltd.[39]
• Nigel Jemson, former Premier League footballer
• Graham Mather represented Hampshire North and Oxford in the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999
• Richard G. Mitchell Composer known for writing and producing movie and TV scores.
• Jonathan Myles-Lea, painter
• Howard Stableford, former presenter of the BBC's Tomorrow's World and Newsround
• Matthew Sturgess, professional Rugby Union player for Sale Sharks [40]
• Tony Swift, Former England Rugby international[41]
• David Williams, Chief Executive of the United Kingdom Space Agency since 2010 (formerly the British Nationals Space Centre)
• Nazia Mogra, Children's TV presenter and senior television journalist

• Hutton Grammar School website
• EduBase
• HGS Economics