Elizabeth Stone (educator)

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Elizabeth Stone
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Known forHeadmaster of Winchester College

Elizabeth Stone is an Australian teacher who is the current Headmaster of Winchester College, an English public school (fee-charging private boarding school), and was formerly the head of Queenwood School for Girls, Sydney, Australia.

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Stone was educated at Ascham School, and then trained in mathematics, German and law at the University of New South Wales. She moved to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar at University College, Oxford. [1] She then worked at the Supreme Court of New South Wales and University of New South Wales before returning to secondary education.

From 2012 to 2014 she was vice principal of Cheltenham Ladies College. [2] Then, after 8 years as the principal of Queenwood School, Sydney, she returned to Winchester College as Headmaster, succeeding Timothy Hands. [3] She is the first woman to hold this position. [4]

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References

  1. "Winchester College Welcomes New Head". www.winchestercollege.org. 19 July 2022.
  2. Bouchard, Adele (21 July 2022). "First female head for Winchester College - and girls will be allowed into sixth form". Hampshire Chronicle .
  3. Woolcock, Nicola (1 September 2023). "Winchester College appoints first female head teacher". The Times . Retrieved 1 September 2023.
  4. Carroll, Lucy (19 July 2022). "Queenwood principal to head 640-year-old British boys' school". The Sydney Morning Herald .

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Academic offices
Preceded by Headmaster of Winchester College
2023–present
Incumbent