Robin Dyer

Robin Dyer (born 22 December 1958) is a former English cricketer and is the Headmaster of Ampleforth College, a co-educational Catholic boarding school in North Yorkshire.

Dyer was born in Hertford. He studied at Durham University (Collingwood College) and captained the cricket team, having already made appearances for the Warwickshire 2nd XI.[1] He graduated from Durham with a degree in Politics.[2] He appeared in 65 first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled right arm medium pace. He scored 2,843 runs, making three first-class hundreds and 18 fifties, with a highest score of 109* and held 39 catches. He took no wickets with a best performance of none for 2.[3] In one day cricket, he played 42 matches for Warwickshire, making one hundred and 2 fifties, and played in the 1984 Benson and Hedges Cup final at Lord's in 1984, when Warwickshire lost to Lancashire.

After leaving Warwickshire in 1986 he became a teacher of US Politics at Wellington College. He was a Housemaster from 1990 to 2002 and was Second Master from 2002 to 2019. He was Acting Master twice in the Michaelmas term of 2005 and again in the Lent term of 2014. As the senior deputy, second in the leadership structure, to three Heads he has been a central figure as Wellington College has become one of the world’s most prestigious and successful schools. His leadership was broad ranging but his influence was central to the successful move to co-education, the selection and development of a high quality teaching staff, the realising of the international ambitions of the College with the opening of Wellington College International Tianjin and its sister schools in Shanghai and the ground-breaking partnership with the Wellington College Academy. He was in charge of the cricket 1st XI from 1989 to 2003.

In September 2019 Dyer took up the post of Headmaster of Ampleforth College. He has been the driving force behind many positive developments at Ampleforth, including the development of a high calibre leadership team, furthering the Benedictine values within pupils and staff, and reinvigorating the Ampleforth Society, one of the most influential global catholic networks.