Thomas William Jex-Blake (1832–1915)

Headmaster and clergyman. Educated at Rugby School and University College, Oxford. Fellow of Queen’s College, 1855. Ordained, 1856. Sixth-form master at Marlborough Collge, 1857. Assistant master at Rugby School, 1858–68. Principal, Cheltenham College, 1868. Headmaster of Rugby, where he advocated a liberal education and built an art museum, 1874–87.