Senior Management Team Profiles
ANTONY CLARK – HEADMASTER
Antony Clark was educated at St Andrew’s College, Grahamstown, South Africa and at Rhodes University, where he gained a BA and HDE, he then went to Downing College, Cambridge, on a Douglas Smith Scholarship and in 1981 gained an MA. At Cambridge he was, on occasion, a member of the University’s Cricket XI. Antony taught at Westerford High School, Cape Town, from 1984 to 1990, then worked in investment management before being appointed as Headmaster of St Joseph’s Marist College, Cape Town, in 1992 and subsequently of his own old school, St Andrew’s College, in 1994. In 2002 Antony moved as Head to Gresham’s School in Norfolk and joined Malvern College in September 2008.
DR ROBIN LISTER – SENIOR DEPUTY HEAD
After attending Hymers’ College Robin Lister studied for a BA in Theology and a post-graduate teaching qualification at Hull University. He was then awarded scholarships to attend Harvard University where he read for a Master’s degree in philosophy and psychology after which he became the Gifford Fellow at St Andrews University where he took his Ph.D and undertook some part-time lecturing. In between degrees he worked for the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis in Cambridge Massachusetts where he remained as a consultant for some years. He arrived at Malvern College in 1989 as the Head of Religious Studies and then was appointed Housemaster in 1998, Deputy Head in 2007 and Senior Deputy Head in 2012.
SARAH ANGUS - DEPUTY HEAD: PASTORAL
After working for four years in the City of London in domestic and corporate banking during the late 1980s, Sarah went to Cambridge University to read Economics at Lucy Cavendish College. After graduation, she took her PGCE in Glasgow. Having been Head of Economics at Eltham College from 1994-1998, as well as being involved in school expeditions to Iceland, Norway and Nepal, Sarah then moved as Housemistress to Trinity School in Teignmouth, Devon, where she also became Head of Sixth Form. She arrived at Malvern College ten years later as Housemistress of the newly-built Ellerslie House and was appointed Deputy Head (Pastoral) in 2011.
JOE GAUCI – DEPUTY HEAD: ACADEMIC
On leaving Monmouth School in 1979, Joe Gauci went up to Lincoln College, Oxford to read Modern History, graduating in 1983. After completing his PGCE at University College, Cardiff, Joe taught History at Ipswich School for five years before moving to Malvern College in 1989. From 1998-2005 he was Head of the Lower School and since 2005 has assumed the role of Director of Studies. Joe is the author of five IB Diploma books on 20th Century History.
PAUL GODSLAND – DEPUTY HEAD: LOGISTICS
A graduate from the University of Oxford, Paul Godsland joined Malvern College in 1982 to teach French and German. Head of French between 1989 and 2011, Head of Modern Languages since 2000, he has accompanied around 3000 Malvern pupils to France over twenty years. He was appointed as Senior Master in 2003, responsible for co-ordinating activities outside the academic curriculum.
GUY RALPHS - BURSAR & CLERK TO THE COUNCIL
Educated at Repton and Kingston Business School, Guy worked for Shell UK and Shell International in the UK and overseas between 1976 and 1998. After 22 years with Shell, Guy was appointed Bursar and Company Secretary to Merchant Taylors' School Northwood in 1998 and joined Malvern as Bursar and Clerk to the Council in January 2012.
ALASTAIR (SAM) COOK – HEADMASTER, THE DOWNS MALVERN
Educated at Ashville College, Harrogate and Milton High School in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. A graduate of Westminster College Oxford (where he coached the Oxford University rugby team), Sam’s first teaching appointment was at The Dragon School, Oxford were he taught Geography as well as being a Housemaster and Director of Activities and Expeditions. After 17 years at The Dragon School, Sam left to take up the appointment of Deputy Head of Perrott Hill School, Somerset and then in 2002 took up the Headship of Boundary Oak School in Hampshire. In 2005, Sam became the Headmaster of Pembroke House in Gilgil, Kenya where he stayed until 2008 when he returned to the UK following his appointment as Headmaster of The Downs Malvern.