Bishopgate
The proposed Bishopgate development was applied for but withdrawn after objections from local properties. The scheme has since been abandoned because of increased building costs.
Headmaster
Mike Thorne Dr Stuart Smallwood left in July 2025. In his place, while the governors continued their search for a successor, Deputy Head, Mr Mike Thorne, was asked to take over the running of the school.
Martin Holloway (1944 – 2024)
Martin Holloway (August 27, 1944 – June 24, 2024) Years at school: late 1950s Martin Holloway was a pupil at Bishop Wordsworth’s School in the late 1950s where he got to know the Browning brothers Geoff and Jerry and their sister, Susan, who later became his wife and my mother. Not to mention Malcolm Keppie who decades later became my first Latin teacher, introducing me to the subject I would go on to study at Oxford. From the constant references that peppered my childhood I was aware of my father’s connection to the school and the central role it [...]
RICHARD HUGH TAYLOR (1937 – 2024)
Years at school: 1948-55 The younger son of Robert (“Tarzan”), BWS teacher from 1922 to 1963, Richard read English at Christ’s College, Cambridge and after National Service embarked on a distinguished career as a reference/research librarian principally for the London Borough of Lewisham but earlier also for the library of the Royal Society of Medicine. Like his late brother Nick, Richard was a very private man, but he had many lifelong friends including some from his class at school, all of whom testify to his warm personality, a generous and courteous life, his humour, and a selfless and loving concern [...]
