My friend David Jackson, who has died aged 82, was an English teacher who later set up a charity working with abusive men. He was also a writer on educational matters.
Born in Paignton, Devon, he was the son of Phyllis (nee Cole) and Donald Jackson, a firefighter. His family had been evacuated there to escape the London blitz. They stayed in the area until his mother died of heart disease when David was 12. He was then separated from his sisters, Shirley, Anne and Susan, and sent to board at King Edward VI grammar school for boys in Totnes, which he found a brutalising experience.
