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Queen's College Boys' High School, more commonly referred to as Queen's College (or simply QC), is a fee-paying government English medium high school for boys situated in the town of Komani in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Established in 1858 first as Prospect House Academy, it is the oldest school in the Border region and among the 100 oldest schools in South Africa. The college is associated with Queen's College Boys' Primary School, which was established on 15 November 1957, a year before the high school marked 100 years of existence.

Queen's College started as Prospect House Academy when Mr C.E Ham first opened the doors to his school on 21 April 1858 at 6 Shepstone Street in Queenstown. The school was situated in an outbuilding on the property and consisted of a single room with a mud floor and holes in the wall for ventilation. The enrollment had reached 30 boys by 1859 and was also known as the Queenstown District School. It was in receipt of a government grant of £50, backdated to the initial opening of the school. From inception the school offered boarding facilities, in the home of Mr Ham, conveniently situated directly across the road from the schoolhouse.

In 1864, a dispute regarding financial support for the school by the district council, led to the abrupt closure of the school by Mr Ham and he ceased teaching in order to open a general store in the town. Boys returning from their holiday in July 1864 discovered that their school house had been let to another tenant and their schoolmaster had become a haberdasher. Public concern was such that a committee was formed, which decides that St Michael's Grammar School should assume the mantle of Prospect House Academy by accepting the status of a government-aided school. The resulting amalgamated school becomes the Public School for Boys and classes are held in a billiard hall.

It was only in 1910 that the school was renamed Queen's College.[1]

• Mr. CE Ham (1858–1864)
• Mr. G Elliot (1864–1865)
• Mr. R McCormick (1865–1867)
• Mr. FJ Beswick (1867–1899)
• Mr. B Noaks (1899–1900)
• Mr. GFH Clark (1901–1904)
• Mr. H Wilkinson (1904–1929)
• Mr. A Parry-Davies (1930–1939)
• Mr. HQ Davies (1940–1964)
• Mr. TW Higgs (1965–1973)
• Mr. DH Schroeder (1974–1992)
• Mr. CP Harker (1993–2010)
• Mr. DCP Lovatt (2011–2012)
• Mr. BJ Grant (2013–2017)
• Mr. J van der Ryst (2018–present)

• 4 science and biology labs
• Design and Technology facility
• Media centre
• Library
• Music centre
• 4 full sized cricket fields
• 8 turf wickets for practices
• 3 indoor cricket nets
• 2 squash courts
• 7 rugby fields
• 400m tartan Athletics Track
• 1 floodlit AstroTurf
• 2 basketball courts
• Gym
• School Hall
• Memorial Hall

The school currently has three hostels; Whitson House, Athlone House and Connaught House. Whitson caters for students in Grades 8–9, Connaught for students in Grades 10–12 and Athlone for Students in Grades 9–10. Athlone was reopened in 2021 after many years of closure. All hostel boys belong to Beswick House, a name taken from the school's fourth headmaster.

Originally, Whitson House was the first hostel of the school and was built in 1904. It was later renamed Connaught House. In 1932, this hostel was closed leading to the later opening of hostels Athlone and De Vos Malan in 1939. In 1975, Connaught House was renamed Whitson House after old boy Mr H Whitson. The new Connaught House was built in 1979. After a decline in boarders in the early 2000s most of the hostels were closed and converted into classrooms. Hostels outside campus were sold.

Queen's College has long-standing annual derby days for both summer and winter sports with traditional rivals such as Dale College, Grey High School, St Andrew's College, and Selborne College that stretch back to at least the 1900s. Grey College was also a rival of Queen's, but the yearly derby between these two rugby giants lost momentum and 2006 was the last of the yearly derby.

The main sports fields are the Queen's College Victoria Recreation Grounds (rugby and athletics) and the Chris Harker Astro (hockey) where first team matches are played. The naming of the astroturf being a misnomer which suggests that it is solely owned by the school, when it is actually a shared facility amongst local schools.

• Athletics
• Basketball
• Chess
• Cricket
• Cross country
• Hockey
• Rugby
• Soccer
• Squash
• Tennis
• Golf

• Brass Band
• Marimba Band
• Blood Peer Promotors
• Chess Society
• Choir
• Computer Club
• Debating Society & Public Speaking
• Drama
• Ecowatch
• First Aid Society
• Queen's Gym
• Interact Club
• Library Society
• Photographic Society
• The Queen's Quote
• Representative Council of Learners (RCL)
• Students' Christian Oganisation (SCO)

Rugby Players

Name & Surname	Year Matriculated	Teams	Notes
Allan Beswick	1888	49th Springbok
Jimmy White	1928	217th Springbok
Dick Muir	1982	642nd Springbok
Robbi Kempson	1992	669th Springbok
Kaya Malotana	1994	687th Springbok
Owen Lentz	1998	American Rugby
Carlo del Fava	1998	Italian Rugby
Rocco Jansen	2004	Emerging Springboks Rugby
Lionel Cronjé	2007	South Africa U20 (2009 Player of the Year), South Africa 'A'
S'bura Sithole	2008	South Africa Sevens
Allan Dell	2010	South Africa U20, Scottish Rugby, British and Irish Lion #834
Andisa Ntsila	2011	South Africa 'A'
Johan Meyer	2011	Italian Rugby
Juan-Philip Smith	2012	South Africa U20

Cricket Players

Name & Surname	Year Matriculated	Teams	Notes
Ken McEwan	1970	Eastern Province and Essex cricketer
Daryll John Cullinan	1984	South African Test Cricketer
Justin Kemp	1996	South African Test and limited overs Cricketer
Tony Greig	1965	English Test Cricketer
Ian Greig	1974	English Test Cricketer

• Glen Dell, Advanced World Aerobatic Champion in 2004 and Red Bull Air Race competitor (1974)
• Le-Neal Jackson, South African field hockey player

• Allister Sparks, journalist, author and former editor of The Rand Daily Mail (1950)
• Alan Scholefield, journalist and writer (1947)
• Don Pinnock, criminologist, naturalist and journalist (1965)
• Gideon Khobane, CEO of SuperSport (1995)
• Gary Hartley, writer, director, producer, editor and 2021 Mail and Guardian Top 200 Eminent and Accomplished Young South Africans (2004)
• Loyiso Mkize, visual artist, creator of "Kwezi" - South Africa's first ever superhero and artist for DC comics (2005)
• Ayabonga Cawe, economist,

broadcaster and author (2008)

• Ken Clark,QCOBA National President,Founder and CEO of Twizza (2003) Founder and CEO of Crickley (1980)

• Errol K. Moorcroft, Progressive Federal Party and Democratic Party (South Africa) politician, MP for Albany district 1981–1987, 1989–1994 (1956)

• John ("Jack") Sherwood Kelly, VC CMG DSO, recipient of the Victoria Cross (also attended Dale College, Selborne College and St. Andrews College)
• Norman Walsh, Rhodesian and Zimbabwean air marshal (1949)