Master in College is the title of the housemaster of College, the oldest boarding house at

Eton College Eton College () is a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's College, ...

, which is reserved for the seventy

King's Scholar A King's Scholar is a foundation scholar (elected on the basis of good academic performance and usually qualifying for reduced fees) of one of certain public schools. These include Eton College; The King's School, Canterbury; The King's School ...

s. King's Scholars (Collegers) attend Eton on scholarships provided under the original foundation by King Henry VI in 1440 and awarded by examination each year. The school originally consisted of 70 scholars (half of the first intake had previously been educated at Winchester College) together with a small number of Commensals. The boarding house in which Collegers live is in the central area of the school off School Yard, where both Eton College Chapel and Lupton's Tower are situated. It includes New Buildings and Chamber. Chamber, the older section, includes rooms which look out onto School Yard, while New Buildings is on the reverse side and contains the majority of the boys' living spaces. The position of Master in College dates from 1846 when the New Buildings were finished, Long Chamber was divided up, and other long-overdue reforms took place. Prior to that the

Head Master A head master, head instructor, bureaucrat, headmistress, head, chancellor, principal or school director (sometimes another title is used) is the staff member of a school with the greatest responsibility for the management of the school. In som ...

had been directly responsible for the Scholars.Charles Keegan Paul ''Memories'' Routledge, 1971 , "Mr C J Abraham

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up his overflowing boarding-house to take up the novel position of 'Assistant-Master in College' ic"

List of Masters in College

*C. J. Abraham (1846–1849) *W. B. Marriott (1850–1852) *W. L. Hardisty (1852–1855) *

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(1855–1862) *N. L. Shuldham (1862–1867) *Henry Elford Luxmoore (1867–1871) *Hendrick Agnis Chignell (1874–1878) *Francis Hay Rawlins (1879) *Henry Broadbent (1879–1886) *Charles Lowry (1886–1893) * Arthur Murray Goodhart (1894–1903) * Cyril Alington (1904–1908) *Aymer William Whitworth (1908–1917) *John Foster Crace (1917–1923) *Hugh Kenyon Marsden (1923–1930) *

John Vaughan Wilkes John Comyn Vaughan Wilkes (30 March 1902 – 24 January 1986) was an English educationalist, who was Warden of Radley College and an Anglican priest. Wilkes was born in Eastbourne, the eldest son of Lewis Chitty Vaughan Wilkes and his wife Ci ...

(1930–1937) * Walter Hamilton (1937–1946) *Frederick J. R. Coleridge (1946–1949) * Stephen McWatters (1949–1957) *Raef J. G. Payne (1957–1965) *

Peter Pilkington Peter Pilkington, Baron Pilkington of Oxenford (5 September 1933 – 14 February 2011

(1965–1975) *

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(1975–1980) *

Martin Hammond Martin Hammond (born 15 November 1944) is an English classical scholar and former public school headmaster. Early life Hammond was educated at Rossall Junior School, Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he took his first degree ...

(1980–1984) * Andrew Boggis (1985–1992) * Joseph A. F. Spence (1992–2002) *Gary J. Savage (2002–2006) *Jane Louise Sillery (2006–2015)John Clare ''Eton breaks with tradition to appoint woman housemaster'' Daily Telegraph 10 Mar 2006
/ref> * James A. G. Fulton (2015–present)

References

{{reflist Lists of educators Eton College