NEW HEADMASTER

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 162, 25 June 1935, Page 10

NEW HEADMASTER

Waftganui Collegiate School ENGLISHMAN APPOINTED By Telegraph—Press Association. WANGANUI. June 24. The appointment is announced of Mr F. W. Gilligan, M.A. (Oxon), to be headmaster of the Wanganui Collegiate School and to replace Mr J. Allan, who is retiring at the end of the year at his own request. Mr Gilligan is 42 years of age. He was educated at Dulwich and Worcester College, Oxford, obtaining an exhibition at Worcester. He was in residence there in 1913 and 1914, but on tho outbreak of war joined the Essex Regiment, holding the rank of Captain-Adjutant. After tho war be resumed his studies and graduated with honours in English. In 1920 fee was appointed a master at Uppingham, and became headmaster in 1925. He has been there ever since. At Dulwich he represented the school both at football and at cricket. He won his cricket Blue at Oxford. Since then he has played for Essex. He will assume his duties here at the beginning of the first term in 1936. He is the eldest brother of three famous cricketers.