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Peter Arnold-Craft

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220:, a boys day and boarding grammar school in Liverpool, remaining until his retirement in 1989, making him one of the longest serving headmasters at Blue Coat. He gained a reputation as one of the most respected figures in the Blue Coat School's 300-year history. Arnold-Craft guided many pupils at the school to Oxford and Cambridge and oversaw an era in which the academic success of the school flourished. Arnold-Craft also fought rigorously to overturn the "cease to maintain order" placed on the school in 1984 by the militant-led city council, eventually succeeding with the help of the then education secretary 227:
During his professional career as a master and headmaster, Arnold-Craft published five books as editor, about 18th century history, particularly focusing on portraiture. These books, co-edited with J.S. Millward, were published between 1962 and 1969.
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steering and inspiring many pupils to Oxford and Cambridge, among them several who went on to be headmasters themselves. He then became the headmaster at
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was unveiled after his death, and an award for creative writing named after Arnold-Craft is still given at the Blue Coat School.
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in 1963. in 1968, after his five years at Gravesend, Arnold-Craft took up the post of headmaster at the
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where he died in 2004. A memorial plaque in the school chapel of the
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between 1963 and 1968, and then became headmaster at the prestigious
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and 32,596 supporters who opposed the action of the council.
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Yorkshire
North Yorkshire
Brasenose College, Oxford
Gravesend Grammar School
The Liverpool Blue Coat School
Gravesend Grammar School
Liverpool Blue Coat School
Nunnington
North Yorkshire
Brasenose College, Oxford
Royal Air Force
Blue
Magdalen College School, Oxford
Gravesend Grammar School
Liverpool Blue Coat School
Sir Keith Joseph
North Yorkshire
Liverpool Blue Coat School
Gravesend Grammar School
H.P. Arnold-Craft bibliography
obituary
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H.P. Arnold-Craft bibliography
Categories
Heads of schools in England
Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford
1926 births
2004 deaths

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