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After his degree, he worked as a teacher at Sevenoaks School and then at Matthew Humberstone Comprehensive School in South Humberside. In 1976 he became a Research Fellow at the University of York. From 1978 to 1983 Driver worked as a headmaster at Berkhamsted School. He spent a considerable amount of time as a Principal in Hong Kong. He was Master at Wellington College from 1989-2000. The cover of this is from a water-colour painting by Jonty and includes one previously unpublished poem. The fifth is A WINTER'S DAY AT WESTONBIRT & OTHER POEMS; all the illustrations Jonty was due to leave in a few days, so I had to communicate urgently with Lindiwe Maliti, a member of the HOD team at Umso. This required a degree of rural agility in a context of bad phone lines and no cell phones, and then some logistical acrobatics from Lindiwe in the form of moving chairs and benches and rearranging classes so that a special assembly could be accommodated.

at some of these schools. In 2000 he retired from Wellington College, having served 11 years as headmaster. In 2007 he was appointed as an honorary Senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Jonty Driver in the 1960s. Photo: www.jontydriver.co.uk Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. Jonty eventually made the decision to stay in England permanently, becoming a British citizen, and building a family and professional life there. In 1976 he became a research fellow at the University of York, and for twenty-three years he was a headmaster in Hong Kong, at Berkhamsted School and, most notably, Wellington College. In sum he published ten collections of poems, (most recently Still Further: New Poems, published by uHlanga), five novels (four of which are still in print from Faber), and numerous works of non-fiction and essay. Jonty is survived by his wife Ann, his children Dominic, Dax and Tamlyn, and his grandchildren. My thoughts are with them and his many loved ones at this time. he met and formed the highest possible opinion of Steve Biko, predicting he would one day be Prime Minister (as he might well have been if he hadn't been murdered) and he helped an enormous number ofSome Schools. John Catt Educational. 30 November 2016. ISBN 9781909717978. (About the five schools at which Driver worked) In 1976 he was a Research Fellow at the University of York, and for twenty-three years he was a headmaster (Principal, Island School, Hong Kong, 1978-83; Headmaster, Berkhamsted School, 1983-9; A bigger volume, STILL FURTHER, New Poems 2000-2019, is to be published by the Uhlanga Press, probably in 2021.

To the last years at Wellington belonged perhaps one of his finest works, Requiem, a beautiful sequence of poems in which some of his most consistent themes, memory and exile, the power of family and the landscape among them, found consummate expression.He became a fellow at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, US, in the fall of 2009, and a fellow at the Hawthornden Castle Writers’ Retreat in March and April 2011. He also served as one of the trustees of the Beit Trust for many years.

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