Mr. Malcolm P. Smith, M.A. (Cantab.), was appointed as Headmaster of the School in 1965. He was previously Headmaster of the Liverpool Institute High School.

Mr. Smith was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a Scholar in Modern Languages. He gained a Double First in French and German in the Modem and Mediaeval Languages Tripos.

After three years in the Administrative Civil Service he taught first at King Edward VI Grammar School, Aston, Birmingham, and then at Feisted School before returning to Manchester Grammar School as a master. He became Head master of Woking Grammar School in 1951, and took up his post at Liverpool in 1961.