My father,Derek Mortimer, who has died aged 80, and was a committed educationist instrumental in the development of teacher education and the opening up of higher education opportunities in the recent polytechnics from the late 1960s onwards.
Born in Trowbridge,Wiltshire, son of Alfred, or a grocery manager for the Co-op,and Gladys, a housewife, and Derek grew up in Melksham and attended Chippenham grammar school,where he ran and played competitive rugby and chess. He studied geography at University College London, where he met Margaret Stenning on a field trip to the North Downs. They married in 1959.
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Source: theguardian.com