Arthur Edward Foot

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(more commonly A.E. Foot) (21 June 1901 – 26 September 1968), was an English

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, educationalist and academic. He was a science master at

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from 1923 to 1932. In 1935, he was invited to India to head a newly opened all-boys

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the Doon School The Doon School (informally Doon School or Doon) is a Selective school, selective all-boys Private school, private boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, which was established in 1935. It was envisioned by Satish Ranjan Das, a lawyer ...

, where he was the first headmaster from 1935 to 1948. He then returned to England as head of another new school,

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Life

The son of William Henry Foot, by his marriage to Harriet Pearson, the young Foot was educated at

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and at

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. From 1923 to 1934 he was an assistant master at Eton, acting as secretary of the national Science Masters' Association from 1932 to 1934. He then went out to India to take up the position of first headmaster at

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, where he remained until 1948. In India he was active as a radio broadcaster on educational topics between 1936 and 1945, was chairman of the Indian Public Schools Conference for 1943–44, and served on the Commander-in-Chief's Indian National War Academy Committee in 1945–46.'Foot, Arthur Edward', in '' Who Was Who 1961–1970'' (London: A. & C. Black, 1979 reprint; ) After leaving Doon, Foot returned to England and subsequently went on to become the first headmaster of Ottershaw School,http://osobs.d10.redroom.co.uk/sites/osobs.d10.redroom.co.uk/files/prospectus.pdf retiring in 1964. He was president of the Surrey County Teachers' Association for 1955–1956. In 1935, he had married Sylvia Hartill and they had one son and one daughter. He died on 26 September 1968, when his address in ''

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'' was given as Pitter Cottage,

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Honours

* Boy Scouts Association Medal of Merit, 1934 * Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal, 1946 *Commander of the

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, 1948

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External links

Arthur Foot profile on the Doon School page

Ottershaw School Profile
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