It is clear that he had a weakness for publicity and, amongst other things, this led him to place cards on notice-boards all over London advertising his services and urging parents and teachers to contact him for advice and to inspect his canes, birches and straps. He later went further and paraded through the borough wearing a schoolmaster’s gown with sandwich board placards bearing such messages as “Abolish the Birch & Crime Increases. Sign the petition and join the crusade to defeat the abolition of Judicial Corporal Punishment” and “Parents, do your children need beating?… If so, etc…”
Eric Wildman 1950s Crusader for Corporal Punishment4
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