Wrekin College appoints New Headmaster

Published on isbi School News dated Thursday 20th of January 2011

Richard Pleming will be the new Headmaster of Wrekin College, Shropshire. Currently Housemaster at St Edward's school in Oxford, Richard will succeed Stephen Drew in September 2011. A former Canterbury Cathedral chorister, Richard Pleming was educated at The King's School, Canterbury, where he was Captain of School, and at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he gained a first class degree in English.

Before moving into teaching in 1990, he spent a year working for Scottish Opera and five years in corporate finance and venture capital at Schroders and 3i. He previously taught at Eton College and St Paul's School in London.