Timothy Hands

Dr Timothy Roderick Hands (born 30 March 1956 in London) is an English teacher, writer and educator, who is headmaster of Winchester College.[1]

Education

Hands comes from a family of teachers.[2] He was educated in the state sector, later he studied the violin at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, before reading English at King's College London, where he also gained a qualification in Theology. He then became a graduate student at Oxford,[3] where he was senior scholar at St Catherine’s and then Oriel College.[4]

Career

Hands was a Lecturer in English at Oriel College before becoming a housemaster at The King’s School Canterbury, and Second Master at Whitgift School.[4] In 1997 he became Headmaster of The Portsmouth Grammar School[5] before moving in January 2008 to Magdalen College School as its 61st Master.[6] Hands has appeared as a spokesman for the independent sector[7] on educational matters,[8] especially partnership between the sectors, and university admissions.[9] He was elected to the Committee of the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference in 2003,[10] becoming chairman of its University Committee one year later, and serving in that capacity for seven years.[11] In 2012 he was elected as Chairman of the Conference for 2013-14.[12] In July 2015 it was announced that Dr Hands would be taking up the position of Headmaster of Winchester College in September 2016.[13]

At MCS Oxford one of his many successes was the MCS Arts Festival (now known as the Oxford Festival of Arts). He focused on extra-curricular activities at the school, as his predecessor (Now head of Kings London, Andrew Halls) had built the school's academic reputation to that of world renown and there was little work to do on this front. His investment into music, drama and sports paid off with the school competing at national levels in all sports and performing on professional stages with the ex-creative director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Adrian Noble as director, along with Joanne Pearce. The sports teams were also fortunate enough to be coached by international coaches such as Phil DeFreatus for Cricket and Todd Williams for Hockey, along with the current Head of Sports, Andy Watts who was a Reading 1st team hockey player.

Academic Publications

Hands has written books on English literature, especially on the author Thomas Hardy.[14] These include A Hardy Chronology,[15] Thomas Hardy: Distracted Preacher?,[16] and the Hardy volume in Macmillan’s Writers in their Time series.[6] He contributes to other books about Hardy including the Oxford Reader’s Guide and the Ashgate Companion.[1][17]

Personal life

Hands is married to Jane, a London solicitor, and they have two children.

References

  1. 1 2 'HANDS, Timothy Roderick’, Who’s Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013, online edn Oxford University Press” : UK Who's Who
  2. ↑ "You don't raise standards skewing them". New Statesmen. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  3. ↑ "Politicians are in his sights". Oxford Times. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  4. 1 2 "HMC executive". HMC. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  5. ↑ "Magdalen College School". Conde Nast. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  6. 1 2 "Timothy Roderick Hands". Debretts. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  7. ↑ Davidson, Lynn (27 September 2011). "Plan to give poor pupils extra credit to discriminate against private school classes". Daily Mail. London. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  8. ↑ "Gove is stuck on a scottish moor firing off rockets". Questia. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  9. ↑ Henry, Julie (17 February 2013). "Leading Headmasters defend values of Independent Schools". London: Telegraph. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  10. ↑ "THE HEADMASTERS' AND HEADMISTRESSES' CONFERENCE" (PDF). HMC. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  11. ↑ "HMC Chair Elect Tim Hands says academic potential should be the only requirement". ITN. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  12. ↑ "Nick Clegg using 'old-style Communist' tactics, says private school head". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  13. ↑ http://www.wincollsoc.org
  14. ↑ "Magdalen College School". Gabbitas Education. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  15. ↑ "Select Publications". Magdalen College School. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  16. ↑ "A Short Bibliographical Survey of Thomas Hardy Studies". Warsaw University. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  17. ↑ "The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy" ed. Rosmarie Morgan (London: Ashgate,2010)

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  1. ↑ Charles Cook, 2016
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