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John Headford, a very private man who touched the lives of hundreds of people, has died aged 94. Born in Bristol in 1926, John’s youth included a grammar school education and national service in the Royal Engineers, a Regiment of which he was very proud. In Bristol he was a member of the Cathedral Players and the Shakespeare Society and he produced the Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance in the Colston Hall. John’s university life, studying maths and music, was cruelly cut short by a year in a sanatorium with tuberculosis. A career in insurance brought him to Bournemouth as Manager of the London and Edinburgh in 1959. He and his new wife, Maureen, joined the Bournemouth Little Theatre Club and took an active part in productions at the Club’s own Palace Court Theatre in the centre of Bournemouth. They were also involved in staging Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” on Brownsea Island, the pre-cursor of the group now established as the Brownsea Open Air Theatre
READERS with long memories, especially former students of King Alfred’s College, the forerunner of Winchester University, will surely recall Martial Rose, principal of the college from 1967 to 1984. He died on January 30 after a short illness at the age of 98. Dynamic, creative, bold and inspiring, he did more than anyone to lead the institution through stern, challenging times in the late 1970s when higher education and teacher training were going through major reorganisation. Less ably led and less adaptable institutions in Southampton and Salisbury simply foundered. Not so King Alfred’s. Under Martial Rose’s guidance KAC successfully reinvented itself as a liberal arts college offering BA as well as BEd degrees and developed the firm foundations of what is now the innovative, research active and highly respected University of Winchester. It is entirely fitting that the university library bears his name.
Gareth Young speaking in Birmingham at a Young Teachers Consultation Conference in 2019
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My husband, Gareth Young, who has died of an undiagnosed cardiovascular condition aged 46, was a teacher and trade unionist who had recently become deputy general secretary of the NASUWT teaching union.
He was born in Solihull to Mike Young, a local government officer, and Sandra (nee Robinson), a civil servant, and attended Smith’s Wood school in Solihull, a challenging experience that inspired him to dedicate his professional life to education and equality of opportunity and sparked a passion for lifelong learning.