Simon Doggart

Simon Jonathon Graham Doggart (8 February 1961 – 23 July 2017) was an English first-class cricketer and headmaster.

Born in Winchester, Hampshire, Doggart was educated at Winchester and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He represented Cambridge University as a Left-handed in 35 first-class matches between 1980 and 1983. He was awarded four blues. His grandfather Graham Doggart, great-uncle James Hamilton Doggart, father Hubert Doggart and uncle Peter Doggart all played first-class cricket. He was appointed headmaster of Caldicott School in Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire.

In February 2017 it was revealed that a former mentor of his, John Smyth, had sadistically violently beaten public school pupils. Hoggart announced in February 2017 that he intended, at the age of 56, to resign as Head of Caldicott School in July 2017. In April 2017 it was alleged that Doggart had, after being the victim of Smyth's abusive beatings as a young man, also administered severe beatings alongside Smyth. In May 2017 the school announced that Hoggart was to be replaced as headmaster by Theroshene Naidoo, due to ill health; Hoggart's health deteriorated, and he died on 23 July 2017 in East Wittering, Chichester.