The Cambridgeshire High School for Boys was founded as the Cambridge and County School for Boys in Cambridge, England, in 1900.
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History
It was later the Cambridge and County High School for Boys, and then finally the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys. It had around 600 boys in 1970, with 150 in the sixth form. It was transformed into Hills Road Sixth Form College in the 1974 reorganisation of education in Cambridgeshire.
The Cambridgeshire High School for Girls became the Long Road Sixth Form College, also in 1974.
Former headmasters
1900 Rev Charles John Napoleon Child
1917 Peter Henderson (died 1917)
1917 Rev Charles John Napoleon Child [acting head]
1919 Major C. J. R. Whitmore
1923 Arthur Brinley Mayne
1946 Brinley Newton-John (father of Olivia Newton-John)
1954 Arthur William Eagling
1969 Colin W. Hill (subsequently Principal of Hills Road Sixth Form College, 1974–1984)
Alumni
Martin Amis (author) records in his autobiography "Experience" that he attended the school while his father Kingsley Amis and his mother Hilary were living off Madingley Road.
Roger 'Syd' Barrett of the rock band Pink Floyd attended the school. Barrett is remembered for the unprecedented way in which he resisted the school's strict code of conduct.
Charles Benstead, cricketer and Royal Navy officer
Sir John Bradfield – Founder of Cambridge Science Park, the first Science Park in Europe.
Sir Steven Cowley, physicist, international authority on fusion energy.
Peter Fluck, artist and sculptor, co-creator of the satirical TV show Spitting Image
Sir Clive Granger, economist, won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (widely referred to as the "Nobel Prize in Economics") in 2003
Bob Klose, early member of Pink Floyd.
Prof Norman Bertram (Freddy) Marshall, marine biologist, and Professor of Zoology from 1972–7 at Queen Mary, University of London
Jacko Page (rugby union)
Tony Palmer, film director and author
David Parker, a Western Australian politician who served as Deputy Premier from 1988 until 1990.
Sidney Peters, Liberal MP from 1929 to 1945 for Huntingdonshire
Sir Hayden Phillips (former Permanent Secretary, Department for National Heritage/Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Lord Chancellor's Department/Department for Constitutional Affairs)
Former teachers
Shaun Wylie, mathematician, taught at the school and Hills Road Sixth Form College for seven years after retiring from GCHQ (where he was Chief Mathematician) in 1973. He was one of the codebreakers at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. A photograph of him is on display in the National Portrait Gallery in London. He was also the Ph.D. supervisor at Cambridge of alumnus William (Bill) Tutte.