Teaching Career
After three years as a Mathematics teacher at Gordonstoun School he was offered the post of headmaster at a new school in Hyderabad, India, being set up along English public school lines (Hyderabad Public School)- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyderabad_Public_School. He remained there until 1955, when he was appointed headmaster of Corby Grammar School in Northamptonshire, where he remained until 1967. The following year he took up the post of headmaster of Gordonstoun where he remained until his retirement in 1978.
In 1957 he married Barbara Huxtable; they had two sons and a daughter.
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