Representative Deputy Lieutenant for the London Borough of Bromley

Mr Geoffrey Thompson DL

Representative Deputy Lieutenant: Appointed 8th March 2026

Educated at Campbell College, Belfast, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, where he read music, and Southbank University, where he did an MBA, Geoffrey recently retired after 45 years as a secondary school teacher, 22 as Head of two comprehensive schools: the Duchess’s School, Alnwick; and Mill Hill County High School, the latter including leadership of Barnet’s separate provision for children with Social, Emotional and Mental Health difficulties.

His emphases throughout his career were the importance of excellent student behaviour and high quality, mass participation extra-curricular activities and trips. A keen pianist, he also spent much time conducting choral and operatic societies.

Under Geoffrey’s headship, Mill Hill County High School’s music became acknowledged to be quite exceptional, not only within the comprehensive sector: he established a unique nine-year tradition, still continuing, of joint concerts at school with the full Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Having benefited from his own school Combined Cadet Force experiences and from his membership of the Cambridge University OTC, Geoffrey established a now-thriving Mill Hill County High School CCF contingent, in partnership with Mill Hill School.

Bringing his personal mountain sport enthusiasms to the benefit of his students, Geoffrey also made a major contribution to outdoor education, founding and running, for over a decade, a professionally-guided school alpine mountaineering course in Chamonix and leading a school first ascent Himalayan expedition.

A family man, Geoffrey has been a governor of both state and independent schools and a Trustee of the Barnet Educational Arts Trust.

Further information about the London Borough of Bromley can be found at http://www.bromley.gov.uk/.