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Staff list - Malton Grammar School 1547-1910

Details mainly from N A Hudleston's A History of Malton and Norton, supplemented with information from a 1932 typescript on The Masters of the Free Grammar School.

• Thomas Norman, 1547-1564 First master of the school; Son of an alderman of York, a monk, prior at the House of Mattersey in Nottinghamshire at the time of the dissolution of that House on the 3rd October, 1538, when, with four canons, he surrendered the House to Dr. William Petrie, one of the King’s Commissioners. Mattersey belonged to the Gilbertine Order which was the same Order as that to which Old Malton Priory belonged and of which the Archbishop was the Master (or Head) .
• Thomas Hustler, 1564 - 1621 Master
• Stephen Jeyram, 1564-1621 Usher to Thomas Hustler
• Thomas Stockton, - Buried 17 September 1621, usher to Thomas Hustler
• William Ashmore, 1622-1632 Previously taught at Ripon. Elsewhere referred to as John Ashmore.
• James Galloway, 1634-1669 Buried in 1669, 1634, 1638-9, and 1662 references. Curate of Old Malton.
• James Cartwright, 1669-1697 Noted in register as master 1672. His name appears amongst the list of well disposed persons who voluntarily contributed towards the repair of the Parish Church which was "almost ruined in the Civil Wars from 1648 to 1671".
• George Mill, 1697-1707 In 1702 a Petition was addressed to the Archbishop of York that George Mills, the then Schoolmaster, had by his extraordinary negligence and irregularity totally frustrated the pious designs of the Founder. It should perhaps be noted that the petition was instigated by the schoolmaster of Hovingham, who was eager, apparently, to secure the job at Old Malton for himself, together with its superior salary. There was a counter petition asserting that Mill was 'a person of sober life . . . well qualified to be able to discharge his office.'
• John Stockdale 1707-1721 Noted as being born blind
• Matthias Hardwick 1747 Buried 1747. Mentioned in register 1736
• Revd. Joseph Kerr, 1747 1778 Youth are completely qualified for any Manner of Business, in Latin, Greek, etc. Also Arithmetic in all its parts, Navigation, Mensuration, Merchants Accounts, and Writing in very great perfection.'
• Samuel Jackson, 1779 1783 Master only in name, drawing his salary whilst holding another position, and paying the usher, at a reduced rate, to do the actual teaching.
• Revd. William Johnson, 1783 Died 1805 at Barnard Castle
• Revd. John Richardson, 1806-1834 Died 1834
• Revd W J Travis, 1834 1834 MA Trinity Coll. Cambridge. Declined to teach at the school
• Revd. William Lonsdale, 1834
• Revd. William Pounds, 1835-1866 Moved the school to Norton
• Revd. Harry Garratt, 1866-1904 Moved it back to Malton. Died in 1904