Michael George Glazebrook was a Headmaster of Clifton College, later a Canon of Ely, and once held the world record for the high jump.
At Oxford, Glazebrook was an athletics blue and won the Varsity Match high jump in 1875[4] and went on to become the British Amateur Champion in that year[5] after winning the 1875 AAC Championships.
[7] Glazebrook worked briefly at Harrow and then was called to Manchester Grammar School in 1888 to replace Dill as High Master.
[2] This post was one that had been held by two previous appointments, John Percival and James Wilson, both of whom had encouraged science as a subject at the school (which still today has a strong tradition having had three Nobel laureates).
[10] Although he was successful in maintaining excellent academic standards and a high moral tone, and although he had a reputation for having promoted music in the school, he was not popular and this was reflected in the steady decline in numbers at Clifton during his time.