As well as Sarah and myself, Leconfield has Matrons and tutors.

Fiona Warden is our Resident Matron who joined College with a wealth of experience in boarding schools.

Lizzie Baldwin is our Day Matron who has worked at College for several years and whose sons both attend College. Lizzie is a lively character who has a good rapport with the boys.

Our Resident Tutor is Richard Peacock:

Richard was educated at Homewood School, Kent and went on to Bristol University where he completed a degree in theoretical physics. After graduating he worked for several years as a chartered accountant within the banking and insurance industry.
Prior to Richard embarking upon a career change into teaching, he spent a gap year working in the French and Austrian Alps before completing his PGCE at Bath University. Richard joined the College in 2010. He is a keen musician and sportsman and is actively involved in College soccer, basketball and rowing

Non Resident Tutors

There are also six non-resident tutors who undertake a duty once every two weeks, who are either attached to the House to do duties because they are Sixth Form Tutors, or have tutees within the House.

James Coull

Educated at Millfield, Thames Valley University, Homerton College and L'Université Stendhal in Grenoble. Before arriving at Cheltenham College in 2008, James had been teaching Modern Languages since 1996 at Norwich School, Trent College and Blundell's School. James coaches rugby, hockey and athletics. James and his wife, also a teacher and housemistress in Cheltenham, have two young children.

Tom Lambert

Tom Lambert read Classics at King's College, Cambridge, where he completed a BA and an MPhil. Having taught for five years at the King's School, Gloucester, and for two years at Warwick School, he joined the College as Head of Classics in September 2010. Tom rowed for his college 1st VIII and captained his college XV, and is a coach of Lower School rugby. He is a sports fanatic, a keen runner, and enjoys mental puzzles of all kinds.

Tom Adams

Educated at Uppingham School and Oxford University, where he read Physics,
Tom Adams worked briefly for the Plessey Company before entering the
teaching profession. He taught at Kimbolton School for four years before
joining College in 1981. He became Head of Physics in 1986 and Head of
Science in 2010. He is also team leader of the Common Entrance Physics
panel. Tom has been a tutor in Leconfield throughout his time at College. He ran the
CCF Naval Section for many years. A 'half blue' at shooting, he helps coach
our highly successful shooting team and has been both Adjutant and
Commandant of UK Cadet rifle teams.Tom and his wife Jenny have two sons who were both educated at College.

Simon Brian

Simon Brian graduated from Edinburgh University with a MA(Hons) in French and German and a distinction in oral French. He moved to France where he taught English at the University of Rouen and worked as a freelance translator in and around Paris. He moved to the Austrian Alps for where he taught English in schools near Salzburg before completing his teaching qualification in London. His first UK teaching post was at Dulwich College in 2003, where he went on to become 2 i/c French. In 2007 he was appointed Head of French at Highgate School, and was later appointed Deputy Head (Academic) Lower School. With his wife, Véronique, and his sons Theo (2) and Lucas (born in July this year), he moved out of London to Cheltenham this summer. 

Richard Penny

Educated at Exeter School and Swansea University as an Army Scholar he read Geography before commissioning into the Queen's Royal Hussars in 1999. During his 10 years in the Army Richard served in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan and also represented the Army at kayaking and the Royal Armoured Corps at biathlon. Upon leaving the Army he worked briefly in intelligence consultancy before completing his PGCE and teaching at Malvern College and Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls. Richard joins us as a tutor in Leconfield, Head of Geography and Contingent Commander of the CCF. Richard and his wife Tamaryn have a daughter Jemima, who starts at the Cottage in the Junior School in the new year, and a baby son Jasper.