Governors
Education 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
Headmaster 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.
Mr Mark Jiskoot
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 Paul Latham
Finance and General Purposes Committee
Senior Partner with Bristow Johnson & Partners, a chartered quantity surveyors' practice. Bristow Johnson has been the Skinners’ Company’s quantity surveyors since 1983 and PL has personally been involved with all the major building projects for Tonbridge School, The Judd School and Skinners’ Company’s School for Girls since that date, also having recently been appointed to The Skinners’ School, Tunbridge Wells. Married with two sons and lives locally.
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.
Mrs Laura Norbury
Education Comittee
Married with one son, who was educated at Yardley Court and Tonbridge School. Has taught in primary and secondary schools in Liverpool and Birkenhead Prep School. Moved to Hadlow in 1968 and taught at Hilden Oaks for seven years, two as Deputy Headteacher, and at Hilden Grange for six years.
Mr Michael Norrie
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 Paul Taylor
Married with four children, all of whom were at Somerhill prior to their move to Canterbury in 2004. Educated at Canford School and Exeter University, where he read History and Politics. Currently Deputy Head at The King’s School, Canterbury, having previously been a Housemaster and Director of Sport at Tonbridge. Prior to teaching played professional cricket and was in the advertising business, working with Young and Rubicam and Still Price Lintas, where he was an Account Director.
Mr Hugh Tebay
Education Comittee (Chairman) and Finance and General Purposes Committee
Educated at the Simon Langton Grammar School, Canterbury, and King’s College London. Degree in Mathematics and Physics and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education. Schoolmaster at The Judd School for three years and then at Tonbridge School for thirty-five years. Taught mathematics, coached all major sports, Housemaster and Deputy Head. Headmasters’ Conference Schools inspector. Married with four children, of which two sons were educated at Yardley Court and Tonbridge School. Involvement in local community in Crime Protection.
Mr Philip Thomas
Chairman of the Governors and a member of The 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.
