Governors
Mr Peter Braggins
Education Committee, Eco Club Committee
Educated at Christ’s College, Cambridge. Head Teacher, The Skinners’ School, Tunbridge Wells 1992 -2005. Previously, Head of History and Assistant House Master, Bedford School. Member of the Secondary Transformation Team and School Improvement Partner for KCC. Chairman, Management Committee, Study Support Centre for West Kent Learning Federation. Coach to debating teams, Citizen Foundation’s Magistrates’Court Competition teams and school football and water polo teams. Umpire and involved in junior cricket for over twenty years. Magistrate, North Kent Branch.
Mr Joe Davies
Master of Haileybury, formerly Head of Sutton Valence School. Educated at Christ College, Brecon and St. John’s College, Cambridge. Former Housemaster at Tonbridge School and Deputy Head at St. John’s School, Leatherhead. Married with four children.
Mr Nicholas Héroys MA FCA
Finance and General Purposes Committee (Chairman)
Chairman of The Finance and General Purposes Committee. Married with two sons, both educated at Yardley Court. Educated Tonbridge School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Finance Director of McCorquodale PLC, an international publicly quoted printing group (1977-86). Finance Director of Slaughter and May, City Solicitors (1987-95). Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. President of Kent County Cricket Club 1995/96, appointed an Honorary Life Member of the Club in 2006 and currently Chairman of Trustees of their Benevolent Fund. Trustee of the High Hilden retirement home.
Mrs. Diane M. Huntingford
Finance and General Purposes Committee
Prior to working in education, worked in hospital administration in London, the British High Commission in New Delhi and the American Embassy in Jakarta. Formerly a Parish Councillor, Vice-Chairman Board of Governors of Yalding Primary School and member of Board of Governors of South Borough School for Girls (Maidstone). One son educated at Yardley Court and Sevenoaks School and one daughter educated at Hilden Oaks and Sevenoaks School. Lives locally and was formerly the Bursar of The Schools at Somerhill. Currently Honorary Secretary of Tonbridge Civic Society.
Mr Mark Jiskoot
Public Benefit
Educated at Tonbridge School and graduated Imperial College, London; Honours Degree in Engineering. Married with two children (boy/girl who passed through SPP, Yardley/Derwent). Held roles in development before moving to Houston to establish a company from grass roots. International consultant on loss control; published and presented numerous papers at variety of international conferences. UK representative to the ISO standards committee in field of crude oil sampling. Chairman/Managing Director of a niche systems design engineering company based in Tunbridge Wells; 60 employees, wholly owned US subsidiary. Former Kent 'Exporter of the Year,' ISO 9001 accredited and an Investor in People. Supports Young Enterprise. Pension Fund trustee. CBI - member of Regional Council and National Executive.
Mr Charles Kinloch FRICS
Finance and General Purposes Committee
Married with three grown-up children. Educated at St Edward’s, Oxford, and The College of Estate Management, London. Joined Ibbett Mosely in 1964 becoming Joint Senior Partner with responsibilities for general practice surveying, estate agency, property management and planning. Retired in March 2003, but remains as a consultant and he is also a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. A trustee of High Hilden Home and House Chairman of Abbeyfield Tonbridge Society Ltd. Interests are gardening and equine support activities.
Mrs Catherine Mayhew
Finance and General Purposes Committee
Read Law at Cambridge University and then worked in the City of London and in a local law firm. For the last 10 years has been a local Councillor and is currently the Deputy Leader of Tunbridge Wells Borough Council. Extensively involved in a range of local organisations and also a Governor of a primary school. One son attended Somerhill Pre-Prep and then Yardley Court.
Mrs Jill Milner
Education Comittee
Educated St. Anne’s College, Oxford. Headmistress of Walthamstow Hall, Sevenoaks. Previously, Assistant Head Teacher/Acting Deputy Head at Tonbridge Grammar School. Teacher elected Governor at TGS serving on Personnel, Curriculum and Finance Sub-Committees. Member of the Secondary Heads’ Association and of the Girls’ School Association. Sidesperson and Bible-study Group Leader, St. Mary’s Church, Speldhurst and Trustee of The Hospice in the Weald, Pembury.
Mr Michael Norrie
Finance and General Purposes Committee
Married with son (Yardley Court and Tonbridge School) and two daughters. Chartered Accountant and director of Corporate Finance company specializing in mergers and acquisitions. Governor (Chairman 2002 - 2006) of Tonbridge Grammar School. Vice President of Tonbridge Juddians RFC.
Mr Michael Stevens
Educated at St Edward’s School, Oxford, and Exeter University. Qualified as a solicitor in 1975 and then worked in the City of London. Joined Cripps Harries Hall in 1985 and became Senior Partner in 2006. Specialises in real estate law. Married with four children, two sons educated at Yardley Court and two daughters educated at Derwent Lodge. Involved in a range of local organisations. A director of Locate in Kent, the inward investment agency for Kent, and a Kent Ambassador.
Miss Helen Tebay
Always resident in the area, educated at Walthamstow Hall Junior School, Tonbridge Grammar School for Girls and St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge with a Mathematics degree and PGCE. Taught Mathematics at Tunbridge Wells Girls’ Grammar School for six years; Assistant Head of Lower School for the last two years. Currently teaching at Sevenoaks School. Lower School tutor for five years, Divisional Head of Middle School for five years and Divisional Head of Sixth Form since 2007. Fully involved in co-curricular activities including Sports, the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme, and the Combined Cadet Force.
Mr Philip Thomas
Chairman of the Governors and Finance and General Purposes Committee
Educated at St. Dunstan’s College. Qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1966. Joined Creaseys in l971 and became partner in 1974 and senior partner in 1990. Invited by Michael Bickmore to be a trustee of Somerhill Charitable Trust in 1993 on its formation and then appointed as Chairman in 1995. Also a trustee of TACT – a fostering and adoption agency. Married with four children (three girls and a boy), son educated at Yardley Court and Tonbridge.
Mr Charles Warner
Educated at Yardley Court, Marlborough College and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Solicitor and Notary Public working at Warners Solicitors in Tonbridge since 1977. Former Governor of Tonbridge Grammar School (1996–2003) and former Director of West Ham United Football Club (1988-2006). Trustee of Tonbridge United Charity. Married with three children (two sons educated at Yardley Court).