My father, Alan Wright, who has died aged 91, was an English teacher who went on to train teachers and be a school inspector for Kent county council. He was also a natural entertainer and had many passions and pastimes, including cricket, literature and the theatre.
Coming from a working-class background, Alan said that his grammar school days, then Oxford education, transformed him in a number of ways. Certainly, he became a convincingly middle-class “culture vulture” who organised many author talks for teachers, including, among others, Russell Hoban, Quentin Blake and Raymond Briggs.
