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WE regret to see the announcement of the death on Saturday, February 18, of SIR JOHN McCtURE, who for the past thirty years has been headmaster of Mill Hill School. Sir John McClure, who was born in 1860, received his education at Cambridge, where he took mathematics and law. From 1885–91 he acted as lecturer in astronomy and other scientific subjects under the Cambridge University Extension Syndicate, while from 1888–94 he was professor of astronomy at Queen's College, London. It was in 1891 that he received the appointment of headmaster at Mill Hill School, a post which he filled with conspicuous success for more than thirty years. The school, which was founded in 1807 for the education of Nonconformists when the older universities were not open to them, was reconstituted in 1869, and flourished for a time; but when Sir John McClure arrived in 1891 there were only sixty-one boys. He immediately set to work to develop and reconstruct the school, with the result that last year he was able to announce that the number of boys under his charge had grown to 361. Sir John McClure was also active in the cause of education outside his school. From 1904–13 he was honorary secretary of the Incorporated Association of Headmasters, and later became president, and it was mainly in recognition of these and similar services to education that he received the honour of knighthood in 1913.
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[Obituary]. Nature 109, 246 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109246a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/109246a0