My father, Nicholas Wheeler Robinson, who has died aged 85, was a teacher and headteacher who, after taking early retirement in his early 50s, organised and provided space for musical and artistic events to take place at his large family home and adjoining land.
Nick was born in north London to. Alice (nee Bradley-Moore), a pianist, and Bernard, a physicist. After attending Marlborough college, in the mid-50s Nick studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, after which he became a history teacher at Senacre school in Maidstone, Kent, followed by Islington Green school in north London.
