Timothy Hands Explained

Tim Hands
Birth Date:30 March 1956
Birth Place:London, England
Occupation:Schoolmaster
Known For:Headmaster of Winchester College

Timothy Roderick Hands (born 30 March 1956) is an English schoolmaster and writer. Previously the Master of Magdalen College School, Oxford, he was the Headmaster of Winchester College until August 2023.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: You don't raise standards skewing them . New Statesmen . 20 August 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20210828015147/https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/politics/2012/06/you-dont-raise-school-standards-skewing-them . 28 August 2021.
  2. News: Shurlock . Barry . Heritage: The hidden corners of Winchester College . 25 February 2023 . Hampshire Chronicle . 28 February 2022 . He is inspired to do this by, amongst other things, the example of his father, R. K. Hands, who in 1968 became the headmaster of a pioneering comprehensive school in Chiswick..
  3. Web site: Politicians are in his sights . 2 May 2013 . Oxford Times . 20 August 2013.
  4. Web site: HMC executive . HMC . 20 August 2013.
  5. Web site: Magdalen College School . Conde Nast . 20 August 2013 .
  6. Web site: Timothy Roderick Hands . Debretts . 20 August 2013 .
  7. Web site: Gove is stuck on a scottish moor firing off rockets .
  8. News: Leading Headmasters defend values of Independent Schools . Telegraph . 20 August 2013 . London . Julie . Henry . 17 February 2013.
  9. Web site: THE HEADMASTERS' AND HEADMISTRESSES' CONFERENCE . HMC . 20 August 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130810102305/http://isyb.co.uk/pdfs/hmc.pdf . 10 August 2013 .
  10. Web site: HMC Chair Elect Tim Hands says academic potential should be the only requirement . ITN . 20 August 2013 .
  11. Web site: Nick Clegg using 'old-style Communist' tactics, says private school head . The Guardian . 22 May 2012 . 20 August 2013 .
  12. Web site: Winchester College Society - Winchester College Wykeham Campaign . www.wincollsoc.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130413135537/http://wincollsoc.org/ . 2013-04-13.
  13. Web site: Dr Tim Hands, Headmaster of Winchester College, announces his retirement . 2022-11-23 . www.winchestercollege.org . en.
  14. Web site: Magdalen College School . Gabbitas Education . 20 August 2013 .
  15. Web site: Select Publications . Magdalen College School . 20 August 2013 .
  16. Web site: A Short Bibliographical Survey of Thomas Hardy Studies . Warsaw University . 20 August 2013 .
  17. "The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy" ed. Rosmarie Morgan (London: Ashgate,2010)
  18. '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

    Education and early life

    Timothy Roderick Hands was born into a family of schoolteachers.[1] His father, Rory K. Hands, founded Chiswick Comprehensive School in 1968.[2]

    Hands was educated in the state sector, at Emanuel School in London, and later 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 then Second Master at Whitgift School. 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 on educational matters,[7] especially partnership between the sectors, and university admissions.[8] He was elected to the Committee of the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference in 2003,[9] becoming chairman of its University Committee one year later, and serving in that capacity for seven years.[10] In 2012, he was elected as Chairman of the Conference for 2013-14.[11] He became Headmaster of Winchester College in September 2016.[12] In March 2022, it was announced that he would retire in August 2023.[13]

    Publications

    Hands has written books on English literature, especially on 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. He contributes to other books about Hardy including the Oxford Reader's Guide and the Ashgate Companion.[17] In 2021, he wrote an illustrated guide to Winchester College's heritage, A Winchester A–Z.

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