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Andrew McGregor

MA (Cantab), PGCE, JP

Chair of Governors

Following school at University College School, Hampstead, Andrew read Classics at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He began his teaching career at Brentwood School before joining Harrow School in 1987, where he taught for three decades. He was House Master of The Head Master’s before his appointment to Harrow’s Senior Management Team in September 2012. As Senior Tutor, he oversaw Safeguarding and Child Protection as well as other areas of pastoral care and pupil welfare. Andrew takes a keen interest in all forms of sport. He is a published playwright with a love of musical theatre and sings with Chelmsford Cathedral Choir. Andrew is Governor at two other leading prep schools and sits as a Magistrate in NW London. He joined the Board in 2019.

Nick Page

BA (Hons), PGCE, MCIL

Vice Chair of Governors, Chair of Education Commitee

Nick grew up in Suffolk and was educated at Ipswich School, before moving to Nottingham University to study French, Russian and Spanish. Having completed his PGCE at Queens’ College, Cambridge, he began his teaching career at Harrow School. Nick fulfilled a number of roles at Harrow, including, Head of Modern Languages, Commanding Officer of the Harrow Rifle Corps and Senior Head of Subject, as well as remaining heavily involved in the School’s co-curricular life, in particular coaching rugby, football and polo. In 2014 Nick was appointed to Harrow’s Senior Management Team with responsibility for the day-to-day academic running of the school and with oversight of all matters relating to Higher Education. In 2017, Nick moved to Westminster School, where he is Deputy Head (Co-curricular) and Director of Communications.

In his own time, Nick is to be found either in Suffolk, where he lives when not at work in London, or on a running track or ski piste. Nick enjoys travel, reading, the theatre and learning new languages. He joined the Board in 2014.

Penny Calnan

Marketing

Penny grew up in Essex and attended Bishop’s Stortford College.  After leaving school Penny worked in US equity sales for 12 years before moving into organising financial roadshows for Media Tree and then to Apax Partners as Head of Events and Corporate Partnerships.

Penny now runs her own logistics company and combines this with working for her family’s tourist attraction, Mountfitchet Castle.

Penny and her husband moved to Suffolk from London and in her spare time enjoys playing the piano, gardening and spending time with her family.

Penny is a current parent with a son in Pre-Prep and joined the Board in 2019.

Camilla Ewart

BSc (Hons), LLB (Hons)

Health & Safety Governor and Chair of Finance & General Purposes Committee

Camilla studied Agricultural Business Management at Wye College, before spending 10 years in Institutional Equity Sales, covering the US stock market. Camilla then became a Freight Derivatives broker at GFI Group, before a return to education to study Law. Camilla practised briefly as a barrister, specialising in the financial element of family law. The arrival of her second daughter brought a change of focus, resulting in a family move back to Suffolk. Prior to having children, Camilla was an enthusiastic point to point jockey, and more recently has enjoyed trialling and working her cocker spaniels. Both daughters are keen members of the Essex & Suffolk Pony Club.

Camilla joined the Board in 2019.

Stephen Keoghane

MBBS MS FRCS

Pastoral Committee

Stephen Keoghane trained at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in London qualifying as a doctor in 1989.

His surgical training was based from the south west of England and Oxford where he completed his thesis in 1995. He was appointed as a consultant urological surgeon in 2003. He has published over 50 peer reviewed academic papers and numerous book chapters in many fields of surgery and writes regularly for the urological press.

Stephen also served for 22 years as regimental medical officer to the Royal Wessex Yeomanry, an Army Reserve cavalry regiment. He was promoted to Lt. Colonel at a young age and served in Afghanistan in 2011 as a trauma surgeon. He is a published military author and lives in Brettenham with his wife and daughter. Stephen joined the board in 2020.

Sarah Kerr-Dineen

MA (Cantab)

Education Committee

Following a primary education under her headmaster father, Sarah was educated at Steyning Grammar School in West Sussex from which she went on to read English at Trinity College, Cambridge, and to study for a DPhil at Christ Church College, Oxford.   Her husband’s career as a Director of Music took the family to Kelly College, Tavistock, and St Edward’s Oxford, with Sarah teaching alongside for the Open University and then in schools.  She was Assistant Head of English at Oxford High School, the inaugural Housemistress of a new girls’ Boarding House at St Edward’s and finally Director of Studies, before being appointed Warden of Forest School, London, in 2009.  Sarah was appointed Head of Oundle School in 2015.

Sarah and her husband have four children and a growing posse of grandchildren. She joined the Board in 2017.

Duncan Liddell

BA (Oxon)

Chair of Governance

After a Scottish education at Glenalmond College, Duncan read Jurisprudence at Balliol College, Oxford.  He is a partner at Ashurst LLP, the international law firm, and advises large companies on a range of board level matters including mergers and acquisitions, regulatory investigations, and regulatory litigation.  He was previously in-house counsel at Sky.  Duncan loves participating and watching sports of all kinds.

Duncan joined the Board in 2015.

James Quick

BA, PGCE

Chair of Pastoral, Boarding Committee, Safeguarding Governor

James spent his childhood growing up in boarding schools as his father was a public school Headmaster. After attending Rendcomb College near Cirencester, he read Economic History at the University of Durham before completing his Post Graduate Certificate of Education at the same university.

James spent the first four years of his teaching career at St Edward’s Oxford, before moving to the Dragon School, where he ran a junior house with his wife, who was already on the staff there.  James returned to St Edward’s in 1991 and was a Housemaster there from 1992 until 2003 (with a spell at Geelong College, Australia, on exchange in 2000-2001). In 2003 he and his wife moved to lead Gresham’s Prep School which they did until 2018.

James has taught History, Politics and Religious Studies during his career and has enjoyed coaching a variety of sports to children who play them as badly as he does. He has run 11 marathons with a best time of 2 hours 51 minutes.

He has four grown-up daughters and lives in North Norfolk. James joined the Board in 2020.

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