Kilburn Grammar School, in north-west London, was founded in 1897, and ceased to exist in 1967. Its history is detailed in a book by Richard E Brock. It was founded by the Rev. Dr. H G Bonavia Hunt, vicar of St Paul's, Kilburn, at a time when there was no general state provision for secondary education. The new boys' school opened in one room at 1 Willesden Lane in January 1898, then occupied two rooms at the Polytechnic Institute at Priory Park Road, moving again in 1899 to a house at 28 Cavendish Road. In April 1900, the school began moving to its new purpose-built premises at Salusbury Road. In July 1900 the Hampstead and Highgate Express reported that the school's hall was opened by Bishop Mandell Creighton. Old boys of the school are still known as 'Old Creightonians'. In 1907, the school was purchased jointly by the and the County of Middlesex to become the first state secondary school in the borough, run by the higher education committee made up of representatives of both local authorities. In 1964, London's local government was reorganised. The County of Middlesex was abolished along with the Borough of Willesden, and a new London Borough of Brent was created, which had sole responsibility for education. An early decision by the new authority was to close the grammar school (and others) and create a new boys' school, Kilburn Senior High School. This had a comprehensive intake at 13, and started in September 1967. While the existing (14+) pupils completed their traditional grammar school education on the premises, by the early 1970s, nothing remained of the old school except the buildings and a diminishing number of teachers who had stayed on. In 1973, KSHS merged with the girls' school on the opposite side of the road to form Brondesbury and Kilburn High School, also comprehensive. In 1989, this school, in turn, merged with others and moved to a different site to form Queen's Park Community School. The former Edwardian grammar school premises in Salusbury Road were sold by the borough in 1989 and are now occupied by the Islamia Girls' School (fee-paying) and Islamia Primary School (voluntary-aided). Kilburn Grammar School's old boys' association was established in 1919, and celebrated its centenary in 2019. It currently has around 400 members, all of whom attended or taught at the school before its closure. Well-known old boys of the school include the broadcaster Richard Baker; the economics journalist Sir Samuel Brittan; Prof Ronald Coase, Chief Statistician from 1941-6, economist and Nobel prize winner; Sir Frank Gibb, the civil engineer; the artist Ken Howard, and many more. Those known to have Wikipedia entries are as follows:
* Jarvis Astaire OBE, Boxing promoter, film producer, chairman from 1993-2005 of the Greyhound Racing Association
* Richard Baker (broadcaster) OBE, BBC newsreader from 1954–82
* Keith Bloomfield CMG, Ambassador to Nepal from 2002-6
* Sir Samuel Brittan, economic journalist
* Harold Carlton, writer and journalist
* Prof Ronald Coase, Chief Statistician from 1941-6, economist and Nobel prize winner
* Michael Cockerell, broadcaster
* Sir Morris Finer, judge
* Sir , civil engineer
* Sir William Glanville CB CBE, civil engineer, President from 1950-1 of the Institution of Civil Engineers
* Prof Karl W. Gruenberg, Professor of Pure Mathematics from 1967-93 at Queen Mary College
* Gil Hayward, wartime cryptographer
* Bernard Holley, actor
* Ken Howard (artist) OBE
* Prof. Jonathan Israel, historian
* Leslie Kaye, art consultant
* Laurence Keen OBE, President from 1989-2004 of the British Archaeological Association
* Paul Kriwaczek, BBC TV producer, of The Computer Programme
* Howard Lew Lewis, actor
* David Merlo, Director of Research from 1983-9 of British Telecommunications plc
* Max Morris, educationist and pioneer of comprehensive schools, and President from 1983-4 of the NUT
* Osborne Peasgood CVO, organist of Westminster Abbey from 1941-6, and for the wedding of the Queen in 1947, and the 1937 and 1953 coronations
* , Baines Professor of English Language and Philology from 1945-65 at the University of Liverpool
* Jonathan Rees-Williams, Organist and Master of the Choristers from 1991-2002 at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and organist from 1978-91 of Lichfield Cathedral
* Bernard Shrimsley, Editor from 1971-5 of The Sun and from 1975-80 of the News of the World
* CB, Director from 1971-80 of the Transport and Road Research Laboratory, and Chairman from 1981-6 of the UK Council for Computing Development
* Reginald Stafford, aircraft designer of the Handley Page Victor
* Sir Guenter Treitel, Vinerian Professor of English Law from 1979-96 at the University of Oxford
* Sir CMG, Chairman from 1970-4 of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR)
* Prof. Robert Wistrich, historian
* Brian Winston, Lincoln Professor of Communications since 2007 at the University of Lincoln