Teaching Career
In 1948 he became an assistant master at Shrewsbury, where he was a housemaster between 1952 and 1955. He was Headmaster of Bradfield College between 1955 and 1964. He was Headmaster of Eton College between 1964 and 1970.
Under his Headship Eton was reformed, with the introduction of sciences in the junior years, the abolition of corporal punishment administered by senior boys, the ending of birching administered by the Headmaster and Lower Master, and a reformed curriculum. He also abolished the sport of boxing at the school, as he had already done at Bradfield.
In 1971, he became Headmaster of Fettes College, Edinburgh, and died, aged sixty, in office in 1979, shortly before the end of the summer term, when he was due to retire. He was cremated at Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh.
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