Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Anthony Roger Dorrien Wickson (born 1940) was headmaster of the King's School, Chester where he served from 1981 until his retirement in 2000. Born and raised in Croydon, Wickson was educated at Whitgift School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge where he read History, narrowly missing out on national service - Wickson embarked upon a career as a teacher. After undertaking a brief training period at Charterhouse School, he moved on to Ardingly College where he taught contemporary notables, such as Ian Hislop. In a career that spanned four decades, Wickson taught in a number of southern schools before becoming head of Shaftesbury Grammar School and, thereafter, The King's School, Chester.During his time at King's, Roger Wickson oversaw its extension, including the construction of a Sports Hall and extensions to the Junior School, and presided over the admittance of girls into the Sixth Form in 1998. The school's library, built in 2000, is named in his honour.
