George Howson (headmaster)

George William Saul Howson MA (8 August 1860 – 7 January 1919) was an English schoolmaster and writer, notable as the reforming headmaster of Gresham's School from 1900 to 1919.

[10] The first such new buildings, designed by the architect Chatfeild Clarke,[11] were opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood on 30 September 1903.

[10] The poet W. H. Auden wrote favourably of the new school's private studies for boys, its warm classrooms, magnificent library and excellent laboratories.

The Times said of Howson "Under him the school made rapid progress, especially in science teaching",[15] and "He has been called away, as he would have wished, while in the faithful discharge of his duty.

J. H. Simpson later wrote of Howson's achievements at Gresham's: He went there in 1900, when it was a little-known grammar school in a remote corner of Norfolk, and in the remaining nineteen years of his life he made it known throughout England for its bold and original methods.

[17]A new school library was built in memory of Howson and opened by Field Marshal Lord Milne in June 1931.