Essential information
Housemaster: Chris Ashurst
Email: chris.ashurst@tonbridge-school.org
Phone: 07749 707004
Address: 11 Dry Hill Road, Tonbridge, TN9 1LU
(Parents meeting the housemaster for tours should use the boys’ entrance at the bottom of Dry Hill Park Crescent.)
House Colours: Green and white
Whitworth is located just a couple of minutes walk from the main School site in Dry Hill Road.
Whitworth boys’ benefit from a huge ground floor games room, separate common rooms upstairs for each of the year groups, and a football pitch in the garden.
Meet the team
Chris Ashurst
About the Housemaster
Chris Ashurst was educated at Queen’s College, Taunton and Durham University, where he read Politics and Economics.
After starting his teaching career at Taunton School, Chris moved to Bradfield College (where he was Head of Politics and Assistant Housemaster) then Denstone College, where he gained significant pastoral experience as a boarding Housemaster and Head of Middle School. Chris joined Tonbridge in 2017 to teach Economics and Business and has been Head of Business since 2019.
Chris is a keen golfer (he was previously Master in Charge of Golf at Tonbridge) and an experienced hockey coach. He has an active interest in Tonbridge drama, having produced school productions including ‘The History Boys’ and ‘Waiting for Godot’. In the holidays he enjoys skiing and paddle boarding.
He lives with his wife Raquel, who is a psychiatric doctor, his daughter Isabelle, and their terriers Harold and George.
