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Perhaps because of his father’s job, or his height (eventually 6ft 4in), young Jonty was badly bullied. But instead of becoming a bully himself, as can happen, he grew into one of the warmest and kindest of people to young and old alike. While I, and many others, seek to come to terms with the death of a friend, it’s a far greater challenge for Jonty’s wife, Ann, their children, Dominic, Dax and Tam, their spouses, and eight grandchildren. Some Schools. John Catt Educational. 30 November 2016. ISBN 9781909717978. (About the five schools at which Driver worked)

Although Driver spent several decades living abroad in England, his early life in South Africa always remained a key focus in his writing and he was an active participant and supportive presence in the local literary community. He will live on in his written works and the memories of family and friends. Alan Paton's Hofmeyr". Race & Class. 6 (4): 269–280. 1965. doi: 10.1177/030639686500600403. ISSN 0306-3968. S2CID 143844131.

To the last years at Wellington belonged perhaps one of his finest works, Requiem, a beautiful sequence of poems in which some of his most consistent themes, memory and exile, the power of family and the landscape among them, found consummate expression. Driver was as of November 2019 [update] an honorary senior lecturer at the School of Literature and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, [7] a post he held since 2007. [ citation needed] After gaining a British passport and supported by his scarcely less remarkable wife Ann, he began his teaching career at Sevenoaks School, helping, through his stewardship of the overseas house there, to begin the school’s meteoric rise to its present eminence. From here, partly through concern at spending his entire career in the independent sector, and partly due to the impossibility of buying a house in the Sevenoaks area on a schoolmaster’s salary, he left the independent sector and transformed sixth form studies at a pioneering comprehensive in Cleethorpes, which became a beacon of excellence in its area. Terrorist, Crane River, 2015. Used to be Great Friends, an essay in autobiography, originally published in Granta in 2002, was issued in an expanded form as an e-book by

Jonty also spoke – he was asked to read the following passage from the play ‘Julius Caesar’, taken from a copy of Shakespeare’s Complete Works which had circulated among prisoners on Robben Island, and which Mandela had signed on 16 December 1977: at some of these schools. In 2000 he retired from Wellington College, having served 11 years as headmaster. In 2007 he was appointed as an honorary Senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Jonty Driver in the 1960s. Photo: www.jontydriver.co.uk What strikes me most about Jonty’s death – like those of other friends and acquaintances in recent years — is how lives lived in so many different times and so many different places can be compressed and imagined into a single instance of grief and celebration, shared among family, friends and colleagues, both locally and abroad. In addition to his career in education, Jonty has been a senior lecturer in literature and creative writing at the University of East Anglia since 2007. He has had numerous novels and volumes of poetry published including A Messiah of the Last Days (Faber) and Before (a collection of 22 poems, published by Crane River).He was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, United States of America, in the fall of 2009, and a fellow at the Hawthornden Writers" Retreat in March/April 2011. A poem called "The Short History of a War" was published in a recent number of the Oxford Magazine (No 408, Trinity term 2019). There were three poems in the same magazine (in January 2019: It is difficult to summarise a life such as Jonty’s, more so immediately after his death. The Jonty I knew was a man who spoke, wrote, and thought with uncommon sensitivity and moral clarity. To my mind, he is one of the finest poets South Africa has produced. In “The Man With the Suitcase”, Driver chronicled the life, execution, and rehabilitation of John Harris, an anti-apartheid activist who planted a bomb in July 1964 on a platform at Johannesburg’s Park Station, which exploded, killing one person and injuring 23 others. Harris was hanged by the Apartheid regime in 1965. Master of Eton and, after his retirement, he went to the University of the Witwatersrand as Visiting Professor of Education. He had, between his stints at Charterhouse & Eton, been i/c the

It used to be said that all of us think we know about education because we have all been to school; Some Schools, very attractively produced (a handful of misprints) by John Catt Educational, should enthral any reader for that reason; it will convey to anyone what teaching is really like with its difficulties and its joys. The strongest impression I had from it is that any parents reading it would be truly delighted to have someone with the qualities of Jonty Driver overseeing the education of their children. He is survived by his wife Ann, and by his three children. Dominic is head of land stewardship at Natural Resources Wales; Dax is chief executive of the Energy Chamber of Trinidad & Tobago; and Tamlyn is deputy managing director at cxpartners, a digital consultancy. When Nelson died in 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar, it was decided that a square should be created in his memory in London with a suitable centrepiece monument. Trafalgar Square was duly created in 1835 and Nelson’s Column – one of London’s most iconic tourist attractions, was completed in 1843.

In 2012 he became the joint-winner of a competition run by the Kingston University Press for a short biography. The biography will be published late in 2013 by the Kingston University Press. Furthermore, in 2013 Happenstance Press will publish twenty-six of his poetic works, titled ‘ Citizen Elsewhere’.He is now a full-time writer, though he continues his to be involved in education. Before. Crane River in association with the Africa Sun Press. August 2018. ISBN 9781909717978. (A collection of 22 poems)

in STANZAS, No 11. Two poems appeared in the magazine Theology, May 2018, No 121 No 3: "In a French Garden" and "The hymn of the Christian atheist". but this is the first time the sequence has been published independently. The third pamphlet is THE SLAVE-BELL AT DOORNHOEK, a painting & a poem, and the fourth THE CHINESE POEMS, It goes without saying that Wellington College would not exist were it not for Arthur Wellesley, the Iron Duke, the first Duke of Wellington. Quite simply, it is equally correct to say that Wellington College would also not exist were it not for the Royal Family. When Arthur Wellesley died in September 1852, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were determined that there should be a national memorial to commemorate the Iron Duke. But what should it be? There were some precedents. In 1976 he was a Research Fellow at the University of York, and for twenty-three years he was a headmaster (Principal, Island School, Hong Kong, 1978-83; Headmaster, Berkhamsted School, 1983-9;After his degree, he worked as a teacher at Sevenoaks School and then at Matthew Humberstone Comprehensive School in South Humberside. In 1976 he became a Research Fellow at the University of York. From 1978 to 1983 Driver worked as a headmaster at Berkhamsted School. He spent a considerable amount of time as a Principal in Hong Kong. He was Master at Wellington College from 1989-2000. After a year's teaching at Sevenoaks School, he went to Trinity College, Oxford, to read for an M.Phil, and afterwards taught again at Sevenoaks School and then at Matthew Humberstone One of the advantages of forced idleness is that I’ve had time to sketch out the framework for a long poem in my head.” Among the heroes of the struggle to defeat apartheid, many stood tall but none perhaps physically taller than CJ Driver, known to many as Jonty. One user reassured him, saying, “Sir you are a legend and please don’t pay attention to these online trolls.”