Herbert Denys Hake OBE (8 November 1894 — 12 April 1975) was an English first-class cricketer and schoolmaster.
[1] He was educated at Haileybury, where he excelled at sports; he played for the college cricket team (captaining it in his last three years)[2] and partook in athletics, rackets and Eton fives.
[1] Hake served in the British Army during the First World War, being commissioned into the Royal Hampshire Regiment as a second lieutenant in October 1914.
[1] When the summer holidays allowed, Hake continued to play first-class cricket for Hampshire until 1925, making a further seventeen appearances for the county.
His reforms of the school sought to bring about liberalisation, in contrast to the procedures established by Parkinson's predecessor, The Reverend Edward Morgan Baker.
[1] Although the Second World War slowed down his reforms, Hake was influential in securing a new site for the school at "Gowan Brae" in Parramatta in 1954, which allowed it to move from its original location which was deemed to be inadequate and restricted in its scope for expansion.
[10] Hake spent his final years afflicted by lameness and blindness living between Mount Wilson and Glenhaven.