Who Is Martin Stephen? Background, Career, Books, Net Worth

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Martin Stephen Background

Martin Stephen is an author, educator, and teacher who is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in literacy in the United Kingdom. He was known as “one of Britain’s profile heads,” and this post looks at his life, background, and accomplishments over the years.

Martin Stephen was born in the United Kingdom in 1949. His exact birthday is July 18. He earned his PhD after completing his university education at Uppingham School at the University of Leeds.

Education

Martin Stephen is a former High Master of St Paul’s School in London and has a from the University of Sheffield. He was previously High Master of The Manchester Grammar School and Headmaster of The Perse School in Cambridge.

The Times Educational Supplement and the Daily Telegraph called him “the most influential Head in the independent sector.” He appears to be the inspiration for the private school principal in Jilly Cooper’s Wicked! , who was described as “a great teacher because he was a great communicator.”

Martin is a regular contributor to television and radio, as well as a writer for leading UK newspapers. He is the Director of Education for GEMS (Global Educational Management Systems) in the United Kingdom, and he maintains a personal blog for the Daily Telegraph. He is in high demand as a naval historian and an expert on First World War poetry.

Martin had a stroke about a year after starting at St Paul’s in 2004. When he returned home, he devised his own rehabilitation program based on the experiences of his father-in-law, who had also suffered a stroke.

Every day included 2,000 bounces and catches of a tennis ball, two hours of Victorian copybook handwriting, two hours of reciting poems with a cork between his teeth, and two hours of walking up and down the lawn stripes. He also played computer games, crashing an onscreen jet 4,796 times before landing it for the first time.

Martin, now fully recovered, returned to St Paul’s and wrote The Diary of a Stroke, which has served as an inspiration to many who have found themselves or a family member in a similar situation.

Career

Stephen returned to Uppingham briefly as an English teacher after working in remand homes as a teenager. He taught English and served as a housemaster at Haileybury College for ten years. He was second master at Sedbergh School for four years before becoming headmaster of The Perse School, an independent school in Cambridge, and High Master of Manchester Grammar School, an independent school in Manchester. He was the chairman of The Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference, a group of 250 independent schools. He moved to St Paul’s from Manchester in 2004.

On June 29, 2010, he announced his intention to resign as High Master of St Paul’s in August 2011.[5] The Times reported that there had been a “apparent confrontation” with governors over Stephen’s ability to raise funds for the school’s redevelopment.

The school refuted this claim in a letter to The Times, stating that there was “no lack of confidence in [Stephen’s] fundraising abilities,” but that Stephen had chosen not to seek contract renewal in 2011 to allow a new head to provide continuity of oversight throughout the multimillion-pound redevelopment.

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Stephen, in fact, had led a campaign that raised more than £30 million for St Paul’s School, and had previously raised more than £10 million for bursaries at Manchester Grammar School. He announced in November 2010 that he would take a sabbatical leave from 1 January 2011 to July 2011, when his tenure as High Master would end. Mark Bailey took his place, agreeing to “give some of his time” to St Paul’s for the first half of 2011. Stephen was the Chairman of the Clarendon Academies Group and the Director of Education for GEMS (UK).

Stephen went on to co-found The National Mathematics and Science College, which opened in 2016.

Stephen is the governor of Hartland International School-Dubai, as well as the program director for “Gifted and Talented Education.”

Stephen was appointed Chair of Governors at Regent High School in Camden in the summer of 2020.

He has written or edited eighteen books on English literature and military history, as well as war poetry. His five novels are historical thrillers set during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I, with the majority of the characters based on real historical figures and events that occurred as described. The series’ hero is Henry Gresham, a seventeenth-century James Bond. He is wealthy and principled, has political clout, and is willing to kill if necessary.

Martin Stephen is the governor and program director for “Gifted and Talented Education” at Hartland International School-Dubai.

In the summer of 2020, Stephen was appointed Chair of Governors at Regent High School in Camden.

He has written or edited eighteen books, including war poetry, on English literature and military history. His five novels are historical thrillers set during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I, with the majority of the characters based on actual historical figures and events. Henry Gresham, a seventeenth-century James Bond, is the series’ hero. He is wealthy, principled, and politically powerful, and he is willing to kill if necessary.

Martin Stephen now

Martin Stephen is now retired from St Paul’s and pursuing the many interests he previously did not have time for. He does, however, continue to write books, which has been one of his lifelong passions. Jenny, the Headmistress of South Hampstead High School, is Martin’s wife.