Four-term head

AFTER twenty years as a headmaster, first at Bury Grammar and then at King Edward's, Witley, John Hansford (ColB 31-40, Governor) retired in 1980. But five years later, with CH suddenly in crisis, he gallantly came out of retirement to be head of his old school, at the very moment the girls moved from Hertford to Horsham. He died in April aged 90, and this is his Times obituary (republished outside the paywall). The accompanying photo seems to me misleading; Elizabeth Wood's portrait captures his benignity better.