Robin Dyer

Robin Ian Henry Benbow Dyer (born 22 December 1958) is a former English cricketer active from 1981 to 1986 who played for Warwickshire. He was born in Hertford. He appeared in 65 first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled right arm medium pace. He scored 2,843 runs, making three first class hundreds and 18 fifties, with a highest score of 109* and held 39 catches. He took no wickets with a best performance of none for 2. In one day cricket, he played 42 matches for Warwickshire, making one hundred and 2 fifties, and played in the 1984 Benson and Hedges Cup final at Lord's in 1984, when Warwickshire lost to Lancashire.

After leaving Warwickshire in 1986 he became a teacher of US Politics at Wellington College. He was a Housemaster from 1990 to 2002 and has been Second Master since 2002. He has been Acting Master twice in the Michaelmas Term of 2005 and again in the Lent Term of 2014. As the senior deputy, second in the leadership structure, to three Heads he has been a central figure as Wellington College has become one of the world’s most prestigious and successful schools. His leadership has been broad ranging but his influence has been central to the successful move to co-education, the selection and development of a high quality teaching staff, the realising of the international ambitions of the College with the opening of Wellington College International Tianjin and its sister schools in Shanghai and the ground-breaking partnership with the Wellington College Academy. Having been in charge of the cricket 1st XI from 1989 to 2003 he is currently the senior leadership lead on sport at Wellington.