A top school in Bath has appointed a new headmaster from September 2020.

The school's chairman of governors, Tim Westbrook, announced that Andrew Gordon-Brown will head Kingswood School.

Mr Gordon-Brown will succeed Simon Morris as principal of the Kingswood Foundation and head of the senior school, in Lansdown Road.

He is currently head of Truro School in Cornwall, where he has taught since 2013.

Like Kingswood, Truro is a coeducational independent day and boarding school.

He said: "As a family, we are looking forward to joining the Kingswood community and I am honoured to have been appointed as the next principal of the Kingswood Foundation.

"It will be a great privilege to lead such an excellent school, building constructively on Simon Morris’ legacy."

GV of Kingswood Senior School, Lansdown Road, Bath

Mr Gordon-Brown was educated at Hyde Park High School in Johannesburg, South Africa, and awarded a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Cape Town before joining Deloitte & Touche in Johannesburg and qualifying as a Chartered Accountant. 

He rowed in the men's eight for South Africa in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and then studied at Oxford University, gaining a Diploma in Social Studies and a MSc in Agricultural Economics as well as a rowing Blue. 

Mr Gordon-Brown rejoined Deloittes for a period before moving to the UK, spending six years working in the City, before switching careers to teaching. 

The school, which educates around 1100 pupils aged 9 months to 18 years, says it is one the UK’s leading co-educational day and boarding schools

He initially joined Radley College, where he taught Economics and History and coached Rugby and Rowing. 

After that, he moved to become deputy head in charge of the academic side at Stonyhurst College, where he improved academic standards before becoming senior deputy with responsibility for the operational day to day running of the college.

Current principal Simon Morris added: "I am so pleased that Andrew Gordon-Brown will be my successor as principal of the Kingswood Foundation. 

"I have much enjoyed leading this very special school in this wonderful city over the past decade and wish Andrew every success when he moves to Bath in 2020.

"We are so fortunate to have such a wealth of fine schools in Bath and I look forward over my final year at Kingswood to contributing further to the education of the young people who we are so privileged to have in our care."

Married with three children, Mr Gordon-Brown is described as a sportsman and a music lover.

He is a founding trustee of a charity which provides teachers who deliver much of the music in the state education sector in Cornwall.

Mr Westbrook added: "The governors are delighted that Andrew will be joining Kingswood; he has the qualities and experience to continue the successful development of the school which has flourished under Simon Morris’ leadership."

The school, which educates around 1,100 pupils aged 9 months to 18 years, says it is one the UK’s leading co-educational day and boarding schools.

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