Early Life
Born in Thornaby-on-Tees, he attended the (Roman Catholic) St Michael's College on St John's Road in Leeds (now merged with Mount St Mary's Catholic High School), then a grammar school. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, gaining a BA in Classics and a DipEd, and worked as a school teacher of classics at The John Fisher School, a grammar school in Purley from 1959-67.
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