“Johhny” Layton taught us in 1R & 2W. All that matters about him that he was young and quite good-looking, which would account for his possession of a truly stunning Swedish wife a couple of years before Peter Sellers made these a de riguer fashion accessory!
3N, we started with the Head of Dept., Ernie Sherwood-hanged himself in his garage just before the Spring term & Moody started. Depressed about O-level results & prospects in the Jan resits of the same.
In those days, we had the London News/Standard mid-afternoon editions on sale in Maidstone, with local headlines in the stop press. I can still recall the day Ernie was in there. Then & now, I felt so sorry about him, because he really cared about everything he did; not the first really human teacher I had, but definitely the first to show it.