The Rugby School Group and Clarence Education Asia (CEA) have announce the appointment of Tony Darby as the founding principal of Rugby School Japan.
Planned for opening in September 2023, Rugby School Japan will be the first British boarding and day school in Greater Tokyo, and Rugby’s second international sister school (Rugby School Thailand opened in 2017).
Tony Darby is the sub-warden of St Edward’s School, Oxford, and has been in post since 2017.
After reading politics and economics at Durham, he took up his first teaching appointment in 1996 at Queen’s College, Taunton, before moving to Rugby School in 2003 to lead the economics and business studies department. He became a housemaster in 2011 and the senior housemaster in 2014.
Tony Darby is married to Leah and they have two teenage children. He will take up his appointment in Japan in September 2022.
Peter Green, the executive head master of the Rugby School Group, said: “I am delighted that Tony is returning to the Rugby School Group, and look forward to working with him and his team as we begin to develop Rugby School Japan.”
Commenting on his appointment, Tony said: “I am honoured and privileged to become the founding principal of Rugby School Japan, and I am looking forward to the challenge of helping to create a truly ground-breaking school in Greater Tokyo, one that will share the same values and ethos of Rugby School and become an integral part of the community.”