Bedford School has announced its new Head Master as James Hodgson. Mr Hodgson will make the move to Bedford with his wife Rachel and their four children in September 2014.
Mr Hodgson is currently Usher (Senior Deputy Head) at Magdalen College School in Oxford. Educated at Wellington College, he read Classics at Durham University and, after a couple of years with Ernst and Young in London, completed his Classics PGCE at Cambridge University (where he was a cricket blue). He spent six years teaching in Sydney, before returning to the UK where, at Tonbridge School as a boarding housemaster and director of admissions, he successfully strengthened admissions and boarding recruitment.
James Hodgson said, “I feel extremely privileged to have been asked to serve Bedford School as its next Head Master. I have known the school since childhood: the welcome has always been strong and the boys down to earth and full of fun, an impression which has been fortified over the past few weeks. Bedford has a rich tradition, a powerful present, and some exciting times ahead.”