“There is on the transcript of his trial a solemn undertaking given by counsel that he would not teach again”, Mr. Hoare added.

He was speaking at the opening of an appeal by Mrs. Audrey Byrd against a decision by the Department of Education and Science to bar her from being a proprietor of any independent school.

Cholderton College is also appealing against a departmental order that it be struck off the register of independent schools unless Mrs. Byrd ceases to be a proprietor. Mr. Byrd’s appeal is not yet being heard.

Both resigned

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