Teaching Career
Beith joined Durham School in 1902 as junior science master, and also coached the rugby and boating crews. Durham featured in his The Housemaster (1936).
After four years at Durham, Hay taught for six years at Fettes, spending much of his leisure time in writing. His first novel, the schoolboy romance Pip (1907), appeared while he was still teaching at the school. His light novels combined humour and shrewd observation with an English (or, in his case, Scottish) tolerance of eccentricity, and suited the taste of the age (he collaborated with P.G.Wodehouse)
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