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Key School Contacts

Senior Leadership

Mrs Yvette Day

Mrs Yvette Day
Head and Master over the Choristers
Email: head@kcs.cambs.sch.uk

Mr Tom Coe-Hales

Mr Tom Coe-Hales
Deputy Head
Email: tcoe-hales@kcs.cambs.sch.uk

Mr J Rist

Mr J Rist
Deputy Head & Designated Safeguarding Lead
Email: jrist@kcs.cambs.sch.uk

Mrs Julia Purser

Mrs Julia Purser
Bursar and Clerk to the Governors
Email: bursar@kcs.cambs.sch.uk

Contact Details

Kings College School
West Road
Cambridge
CB3 9DN

Office: 01223 365814

Email: office@kcs.cambs.sch.uk

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Governors

To contact the Chair of Governors please write to:

The Revd Dr Stephen Cherry – Chairman of Governors
King’s College
Cambridge
CB2 1ST

The Chair may be contacted by confidential letter via the School office. 

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College Governors

Dr Keith Carne

Dr Keith Carne


Dr Keith Carne is a fellow of King’s College. He retired from his post as First Bursar in 2022. Before taking up this post he was a Mathematician, working in France and the United States, before returning to the Mathematics Faculty at Cambridge and becoming a Fellow of King’s College in 1983.

Revd. Dr Stephen Cherry

The Revd Dr Stephen Cherry


The Revd Dr Stephen Cherry is the Dean of King’s College, Cambridge. He moved here from Durham in 2014 where he was, as a member of the Cathedral Chapter, a Governor of The Chorister School. He also served as Governor of Durham School for six years. In his parish ministry Dr Stephen Cherry was Chair of Governors of the C of E (Aided) School in Loughborough.

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Dr Elisa Faraglia


Dr Elisa Faraglia is an economist specialising in macroeconomics and has written extensively on debt and its management. She has been a Fellow of King’s College since 2011 and has two children at the School.

Professor James Fawcett

Professor James Fawcett


Professor James Fawcett is a Fellow of King’s College and is the Chairman of the Centre for Brain Repair. His research is developing treatments for patients who have been paralysed by spinal cord injury, or who are affected by Alzheimer’s disease.

Mr Daniel Hyde

Mr Daniel Hyde


Mr Daniel Hyde is Director of Music, King’s College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the College. A choral conductor and organist, he has previously served as Organist and Director of Music at Saint Thomas Church in New York. Mr Hyde came up to the College in 2000 as an undergraduate and Organ Scholar.

Appointed Governors

Mr Peter Haselden

Mr Peter Haselden


Mr Peter Haselden is a former King’s parent of two children. He read Russian at Durham and is a chartered accountant, with many years’ experience in the oil and services industries. He is Chair of the Governors’ Finance and Estates Committee, and was himself a chorister at King’s.

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Mr Richard Hill


Richard Hill is an international lawyer and senior executive, currently General Counsel for Downstream and Renewables at Shell, and a Bencher of Gray’s Inn.  He read music at Cambridge as Organ Scholar of Caius, and is a former Director of Music of the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace.  His children attended the school, one as a chorister.  He is Chair of the Legal and General Purposes Committee.  He is also a governor of The Purcell School.

 

 

Mr Jason James Governor

Mr Jason James, OBE


Mr Jason James has been Director General of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation since October 2011. Having been fascinated by Japan on a tour with King’s College Choir at the age of 13, he then went on to read Japanese Studies at King’s College, Cambridge. He is a member of the School Legal and General Purposes Committee. He received an OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours List 2023 for services to UK/Japan relations.

Mr Peter Haselden

Mr Stuart Thackrah


Mr Stuart Thackrah is a retired Head of Holmwood House, Essex, with over 30 years’ experience in the private sector of education. He has been a lead inspector for the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) and is currently President of the Independent Association of Prep Schools (IAPS). He is Chair of the Governors’ Education and Pastoral Committee.

 

 

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