 Charles WILDBORE
1876 – 78 Rev.John MORGAN, LLD, DCL
1882 – 1900 Mr Arthur ABBOTT, MA
1900 – 1906 Mr Edwin William LOVEGROVE, MA, MRIA, FSA
1906 – 1923 Mr Thomas Robert TURNBULL, BA
1923 – 1953 Lt.-Col. Stanley F. THOMAS, DSO, BA
1953 – 1973 Mr Colin SHAW, MA (Cantab) (Last Head of Humberstone Foundation School) (Died 1988)
1973 – 1989 Mr Bernard BEACROFT BA (Head of Matthew Humberstone School)


Several references to life at the school under Colin SHAW as headmaster can be found in the book entitled 'Beyond the Final Whistle' by John Boyers, the chaplain of Manchester United FC., who was a geography master at the school.The school magazine of the grammar school was called "The Humberstonian".