Gary Hopkins [Staff 1982 - 2013]

We are very sorry to announce the death in early March 2025 of Gary Hopkins, at his home in Wallasey, after he had suffered poor health for a number of years.

Gary was educated at The Mosslands School, Wallasey and at Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he read English.  After his first teaching post at Wrekin College, Shropshire, he was appointed in 1982  by Headmaster John Gwilliam to replace David Yates in the English Department at Birkenhead School.  He succeeded Michael Harrison as Headmaster of Junior School from 1990 to 1996 and was later appointed Head of Sixth Form, a position which he held until he retired in 2013.

Gary was a much-admired and hugely popular member of staff, who will be fondly remembered alike by former colleagues and by the many hundreds of pupils whom he taught or with whom he came into contact during his thirty-one years at School.  

It was Gary’s wish that no funeral is to take place.