| 词条 | Ralph Townsend (headmaster) |
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Ralph Douglas Townsend (born 13 December 1951, in Nedlands, West Australia)[1] is Chairman of Cothill Trust. He was Headmaster of Winchester College from 2005 until his retirement in 2016.[2][3] He was previously Headmaster of Oundle School[4] and before that Headmaster of Sydney Grammar School. CareerAfter brief teaching appointments at Dover College and Abingdon School, he proceeded to further study at Oxford University. He was first Senior Scholar at Keble College, then a Junior Research Fellow, Tutor and Dean of Degrees at Lincoln College, where he was the Anglican chaplain. He resigned from this post in 1985 when he decided to join the Roman Catholic Church.[5] He took up a teaching post at Eton College in 1985. He left as Head of English in 1989 to become Headmaster of Sydney Grammar School. While in Sydney, Townsend was Patron of the Australian Musicians' Academy and President of the New South Wales Classical Association. After ten years in that post, he returned to England to become Headmaster of Oundle School.[6] In 2005 he was appointed Headmaster of Winchester, the first Roman Catholic to hold that post since the Reformation.[7] In 2011 he was invested a Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.[8] He has written books, articles and reviews in the areas of church history, religious literature and education.[9] His analysis of the current state of British education can be found in "Leading an Independent School in England in the New Millennium" in Simon Clarke & Tom O'Donoghue (eds), School Leadership in Diverse Contexts, Routledge, 2015, pp. 115–133. He has been a Governor of Terra Nova School (Cheshire) 1999-2003, Old Buckenham Hall School (Suffolk) 1999-2006, Ardvreck School (Crieff, Scotland) 2000-2005, Ampleforth College (North Yorkshire) 2003-2006, Bramcote Lorne School (Nottinghamshire) 2003-2005, Mowden Hall School (Northumberland) 2000-2007, Worth School (West Sussex) 2004-2010, The Pilgrims' School Winchester (2005-2013), St Swithun's School Winchester (2005-2013) and St John's School Beaumont (2007-2016). From 2005-2011 he was a Trustee of the United Church Schools Trust and an adviser to the United Learning Trust. From 2008-2016 he was a Governor of Midhurst Rother College.[10][11] References1. ^{{cite news | title = Births | date = 18 December 1951 | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49006041 | work = The West Australian | page = 16 | accessdate = 2012-08-18}} 2. ^'Townsend, Dr Ralph Douglas Townsend', Who's Who 2011, A & C Black, 2011; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2010 (accessed 23 September 2011). 3. ^{{cite news |title=The long view |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2005/nov/29/schools.publicschools1 |work=The Guardian |date=29 November 2005 |accessdate=1 September 2011 }} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/2760851.stm|title=Public school backs academy plan|date=14 February 2003|work=BBC News|accessdate=18 September 2011}} 5. ^The Tablet, 29 June 1985; Catholic Herald, 21 June 1985 and 2 February 2007) 6. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/boarding-school-is-first-to-take-up-city-academy-plan-597540.html|title=Boarding school is first to take up City Academy plan|last=Garner|first=Richard|date=14 February 2003|work=The Independent|accessdate=18 September 2011}} 7. ^{{cite news |title=Catholic first |work=The Tablet |date=17 July 2004}} 8. ^http://www.winchestercollege.org/headmaster 9. ^Publications Ed M.M. Clare, Encountering the Depths DLT 1980;Faith, Prayer and Devotion Blackwell 1983;‘Nicolas Zernov' in Fairacres Chronicle November 1980;‘Mother Mary Clare and the Anglican Tradition' in Christian 1981;‘J.H. Newman' and `The Caroline Divines' in A Dictionary of Christian Spirituality SCM 1983; ‘The Catholic Revival in the Church of England' in The Study of Spirituality SCM 1986; Articles on E.B. Pusey, Nathaniel Spinckes, Peter Sterry, Darwell Stone and Thomas Traherne in Dictionnaire de Spiritualite Brussels 1987-91; ‘The Place of Sport in Education' in Proceedings of the Teachers' Guild of New South Wales 1990; ‘The Education Industry' in The Sydney Papers Vol.2 No.2 1990‘Education and Business Ethics' in Foundations No.6 November 1991; ‘Even a Good Education Gives Rise to Problems' in Proceedings of the Teachers' Guild of New South Wales 1991-2; also in The Educational Forum Vol.58 No.1 1993; ‘The Sins of Success: the Authority to Change' in The Ethics of Teaching and Learning IPA Education Policy Unit 1993; `What's Going to Happen to the Tots?' in Independence (AHISA) Vol.19 No.1 1994;Gen Ed Australian Studies in History & Letters 4 Vols SGS Press 1996-2000; ‘From Here to Downunder and Back Again’ in The Isis Magazine 27 2000; ‘What We Do Well’ Conference &Common Room 2004; Sanderson of Oundle (Ed) Culverwell 2006; ‘The Cambridge Companion to J.H.Newman’ in The Way April 2010 10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.mrc-academy.org/upload/files/governors_20102011.pdf|title=Governors 2010 -2011 |website=mrc-academy.org |publisher=Midhurst Rother College|accessdate=18 September 2011|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110904130615/http://www.mrc-academy.org/upload/files/governors_20102011.pdf|archivedate=4 September 2011|df=dmy-all}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/schools/a-bridge-across-the-great-divide-winchester-college-joins-the-academy-programme-1903924.html|title=A bridge across the great divide: Winchester College joins the academy programme|last=Mansell|first=Warwick|date=18 February 2010|work=The Independent|accessdate=18 September 2011}} External links
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