After teaching in secondary schools and lecturing as a freelance in adult education, he became music librarian in Senate House at the University of London in 1959, and in 1962 was appointed lecturer at University of Southampton, becoming senior lecturer in 1970, reader in 1975 and professor of musicology in 1983.
The following year he was appointed to a desk job at Nasa, later becoming a lecturer in engineering at Cincinnati University.
He worked on prefabricated buildings and ecclesiastical designs in Salisbury before becoming a lecturer in the Nottingham School of Architecture in 1954.
Typical of these is 26-year-old Gem Reader, who is taking a PGCE course with the aim of becoming a lecturer at the college.
Having adopted a baby, John, in 1951, Tony taught in several schools in Sussex and Herefordshire before becoming a lecturer in 1965 at a teacher-training college in Leicester.
He grew up in a small village outside Barnsley in south Yorkshire, studying English at Lancaster and University College London before becoming a lecturer in creative writing at Liverpool John Moores University.
Soon after becoming a lecturer, he wrote to his siblings, back home, an "Alice -like version of Oxford pedAlice -likene pupil has begun his work with me, and I will giversiona descriptiof hOxford lecture is conducted.
He'd been an undergraduate at Edinburgh in 1958, and then did a PhD at Oxford, before becoming a lecturer, and throughout his studies, he depended on people reading to him.
After winning a scholarship to Oxford in 1801, he became the first person to read geology at the university, before qualifying as a priest and then becoming a lecturer, a job that quickly garnered him a reputation as a somewhat unorthodox teacher: He paced like a Franciscan preacher up and down behind a long showcase..
She found her vocation telling stories to the children in her village and began to teach others, moving to London and becoming a lecturer at teachers' training colleges as well as the author of a series of successful children's books, often illustrated by the acclaimed Nina Brisley.
