Nathaniel L. Clapton

Nathaniel Langford Clapton (1 September 1903 – 23 January 1967), the only son of Nathaniel Clapton, manager of a ironmonger business, of St Dunstan's Crescent, Worcester, was a prominent schoolmaster and Grammar School headmaster.

He attended the Royal Grammar School Worcester, before gaining a scholarship to Hertford College, Oxford, where he gained first class honours in Mathematical Moderations in 1923 and in the Final Honour School of Mathematics in 1925.

He was successively Senior Mathematics Master at Watford Grammar School for Boys and The Glasgow Academy.

In September 1940 he became Headmaster of Boteler Grammar School, Warrington,^[1].

In 1950 he was appointed Headmaster of King Edward VII School, Sheffield, a leading Grammar School in the city, sending many pupils to Oxford and Cambridge universities. He retired on health grounds in July 1965 and died on 23 January 1967.^[2]