Peter William Boorman died on 27 May 2026 at the age of 89. The son of a clergyman, he was educated at The King’s School, Ely where he was house captain and Captain of Cricket, Athletics, Cross Country and Tennis. After two years National Service in the Royal Artillery, he read Mathematics and Mechanical Sciences at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

He joined King’s in 1959 to teach mathematics, and added statistics and computing to the curriculum. He was fully involved in sport (especially cricket and cross country) and started ‘non-corps activities’. He was housemaster of The Grange from 1966 to 1974, where he will be remembered, among other things, for starting the ‘Grange cellar’. For more details of his time in Canterbury, see Brian Turner’s valedictory notice in the August 1974 Cantuarian.

He left to become Headmaster of Aldenham School (1974-83) and then set up Abbey Tutors in London in 1985 and became Principal of the tutorial college Davies, Laing and Dick in 1986.

He retained contact with former colleagues as a stalwart of the Canterbury Harvesters, the Common Room cricket XI on tour in Dorset. A smoothly rhythmic opening bowler, in 54 matches he took 106 wickets at 14.8, topping the career averages. More relevantly, he was an ideal tourist. The Jimmy Anderson ‘scowl’ as lesser mortals failed to hold catches off his bowling would be replaced by humour and bonhomie off the field.

Our condolences go to his sons Charles (BR 1983-88) and James.