My brother Ian Dempster, who has died aged 77, taught for 25 years from 1977 at Bretton College in West Yorkshire, set in what is now Yorkshire Sculpture Park, eventually becoming deputy head of English there. The son of Kenneth Dempster, a draper and salesman, and his wife, Peggy (nee Higgs), Ian grew up in Bristol at the beginning of the second world war. At Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital school, Ian enjoyed English and the arts, and outside enjoyed drawing, photography, architecture, rugby and cats. I was born just before Ian went to train as a teacher of English and art at St Paul’s college, Cheltenham. Rosa ran a B&B and Ian studied English at Lancaster University, then philosophy and in 1972 gained an MA.

Source: The Guardian November 26, 2017 15:33 UTC