Harold Herbert Fairweather was born in 1903 in Lincoln, his father an engineer in the farming machinery business, his mother a draper. He graduated from Cambridge University in the 1920's. He became headmaster of the school in 1937 and retired in 1964. He died in Stamford, Lincolnshire (where he lived during retirement) in 1984. This photo of him was taken in his office at the school in 1964 by Darrell Jackson,