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Article: JOHN RAE ; Headmaster of Westminster
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 25, 2007
- Author:
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John Rae was the Governing Body's third choice to succeed John
Carleton as the Headmaster of Westminster School in 1970. As luck
would have it, his two rivals dropped out and Rae got the job. From
that point on, with extraordinary assurance, he rode his luck,
becoming the pre-eminent public-school head of his day - the first
educational "celebrity" and a household name among the
intelligentsia.
John Malcolm Rae was born in London in 1931. The son of a London
radiologist, he was educated at Bishop's Stortford College and read
History at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, leaving with a mediocre
degree, half-Blues for swimming and water polo and rugby skills
sufficiently honed to play for ...
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