The Headmaster

Dr John Vallance was born in Sydney, went to North Sydney Boys’ High School and then the University of Sydney, where he graduated with First Class Honours in Greek. He won a scholarship to St John’s College Cambridge and took his MA and PhD. He was subsequently elected to a Fellowship and Tutorship at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, and then an Affiliated Lectureship in the Faculty of Classics at Cambridge before returning home to Sydney. At Grammar he teaches Latin and Greek in the Department of Classics.

The author of a book on ancient medicine and many articles in the Oxford Classical Dictionary and the Enciclopedia Italiana, he has published extensively on ancient philosophy and science, and lectured at universities in the United States and Europe. Dr Vallance has also worked as a musician and takes a close interest in developments in art, especially sculpture.

Dr Vallance is married with two sons.