Dr. Henry George Bonavia Hunt, vicar of St Paul's, Kilburn, at a time when there was no general state provision for secondary education.
In July 1900 the Hampstead and Highgate Express[2] reported that the school's hall was opened by Bishop Mandell Creighton.
In 1907, the school was purchased jointly by the Urban District of Willesden and Middlesex County Council to become the first state secondary school in the borough, run by the higher education committee made up of representatives of both local authorities.
While the existing (age 14+) pupils completed their traditional grammar school education, by the early 1970s only the buildings and a diminishing number of teachers who had stayed on were left.
The traditions of the school including the house system, societies and its sporting name were long gone.