FRANK  MORRIS  FACER

Frank Morris Facer was born at Stratford-on-Avon in 1863 and, with a BA from London University, taught at Truro School and Woodhouse Grove before becoming Headmaster of Kent College from 1897 to 1911.

He came when Kent College was in dire straits – 32 pupils in all in limited and unsatisfactory buildings where morale and general tone were low.  His strenuous efforts and strength of personality revived interest among parents and he completed the original school plan by adding all the buildings to the road side of the present day dining hall block, including the big neo-Gothic school room.  In 1910 he introduced the house system.  It was on his foundations Mr Brownscombe was able to build.

As a man, he combined the stern disciplinarian with the man of God capable of infinite tenderness and patience (as a pupil later recalled).  He was an earnest scholar and took a great part in school activities, notably the Choral, Literary and Debating societies.

He entered Holy Orders in 1911 and held benefices in various parts of the country before his death in 1926.