The Governors support and challenge the school leadership team, monitor the quality of teaching and the progress of school improvement, and oversee behaviour and safety.
Acting as ‘critical friend’ the Governors do not involve themselves directly in operational matters, which are the responsibility of the Head and the Senior Leadership Team. The Governors’ role is primarily strategic.
Tristram Jones-ParryMA (Oxon)
Tristram read Mathematics at Oxford University, then worked in the Operational Research Department of The National Coal Board. He later taught Mathematics and was Head of IT at Dulwich College. He became Head of Mathematics at Westminster School and later a Housemaster and then Under Master (Deputy Head). In 1994 he became Headmaster of Emanuel…
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Gerard Ring
Gerard trained as a social worker and worked in a variety of local authority social work settings around the country, both as a front-line practitioner and manager. His particular areas of experience have been in adoption, fostering and child protection. From 1999 to 2011, he was a Children’s Guardian, representing the interests of children and…
Ed Vainker
Ed is the Principal and co-founder of Reach Academy Feltham. Ed has a track record of excellent results in urban schools, working in schools in Peckham and White City and teaching French, History and Literacy. Before setting up Reach Academy Feltham with Rebecca Cramer and Jon McIntosh, he was based in Washington DC, helping to…
Peter Nicholls
Peter completed his initial training contract with a West End London firm of Chartered Accountants and then transferred to Baker Tilly in Guildford in 1986 where he qualified. Over the following 10 years, he worked within the Business Services Department, providing audit and business advisory services to both owner-managed businesses and large multinational corporate groups.…
Anthony Robinson
Anthony Robinson is a solicitor & mediator with more than 30 years of practice. His specialist areas include human rights, employment, discrimination, education law, information rights and civil litigation. He is a consultant at Excello Law Solicitors and was a Director at the Equality & Human Rights Commission (EHRC) before that; he played a key…
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Alexander Houstoun-BoswallBA
Much of the ethos of Hampton Court House is drawn from Alex’s recollection of the positive elements of the schools he attended as a child, initially the Lycée Francais in NY and then Colet Court and Westminster in London. Alex works closely with the Headmaster and senior management team developing strategy and vision and defining…
Eliana, Lady Houstoun-BoswallISIT (Paris)
Eliana is the principal founder of Hampton Court House and the former founder and Headmistress of the Harrodian. Eliana studied French and Russian Linguistics at Georgetown University and obtained a postgraduate degree at the Ecole d’Interprètes at the Sorbonne in Paris. Her first job was teaching English as a foreign language at West London College.…