In an early confrontation with his father, a headmaster, Kershaw once told him he did not want to spend his allotted time on Earth "house conveyancing in the Rochdale area".
'It was so little spoken about, you could be well into late adolescence before you even realised it was a crime,' says Allan Horsfall, who campaigned for legal change in the north west, where he lived with his partner, a headmaster.
A tall, handsome architect in his early sixties with the air of a headmaster, he comes from a Mecca family that claims descent from Muhammad.
At age 14, with the help of a headmaster who found him lodging, and teachers who made sure he had enough to eat, Miller entered a structured environment.
"It used to be that as a stockbroker or a merchant banker, if you were on the golf course with a surgeon or a headmaster, you'd be in the same world.
He was a headmaster with a certain mechanical dash to him: a motorcycle-and-sidecar man, then the owner of a Lanchester, then, in retirement, the driver of a rather pompously sportif Triumph Roadster, with a three-person bench seat in front and two bucket seats when the top was down.
"If you have a supply teacher who comes into your school, sometimes they're not treated with the respect that a headmaster is," Sherwood said.
He OKs it, even as he scoffs with the weariness of a headmaster convinced his students haven't learned much.
When I told you about meeting a headmaster with an empty library in the dusty little village of Bahundanda, Nepal, you immediately offered to help run a book drive.
Inspired by McCabe's conflict with a Dublin headmaster in the 70s, it follows the rivalry between Raphael Bell, an old-school buttoned-up Irish educational conservative, and a teacher on his staff named Malachy Dudgeon, a child of a more progressive, chilled-out age.
