Skip to main content Annual Dinner & Dance · Fri, 20 Nov 2026Get tickets
Sierra Leone Grammar School crest Sierra Leone Grammar School Old Boys Union

Records · Principals

Principals since 1845

Years in office for every Principal of the school. For their stories, see the Principals biographies.

  1. 1

    Rev. Thomas Peyton

    1845–1852

    7 years

  2. 2

    Rev. John Milward

    1852–1859

    7 years

  3. 3

    Rev. James Quaker

    1861–1882

    21 years

  4. 4

    Rev. Canon Obadiah Moore

    1882–1905

    23 years

  5. 5

    Rev. George G. Garrett

    1906–1912

    6 years

  6. 6

    Rev. Henry Dallimore

    1914–1920

    6 years

  7. 7

    Bishop T.C. John

    1920–1933

    13 years

  8. 8

    Bishop T.S. Johnson

    1933–1936

    3 years

  9. 9

    Rev. P. Hycy Wilson

    1937–1947

    10 years

  10. 10

    Rev. E.D.C. Clarke

    1947–1952

    5 years

  11. 11

    Mr. Frank Woode

    1952–1964

    12 years

  12. 12

    Very Revd. G.O.L. Palmer

    1964–1970

    6 years

  13. 13

    H.G.B DaviesActing

    1970–1971

    1 year

  14. 14

    Rev. V.J. Hastings-Spaine

    1971–1985

    14 years

  15. 15

    Mr. Akiwande J. Lasite

    1985–2018

    33 years

  16. 16

    Rev. Canon Leonard Ken DaviesCurrent

    2017–present

    9 years

Read the Principals’ biographies

Dates as recorded at slgsaanase.org; some differ between sources — see the biographies for notes.