My father, Gerwyn Davies, who has died aged 97, was a primary school teacher who was instrumental in setting up an innovative teaching facility for Traveller children in the early 1970s.
A Welshman, Gerwyn spent most of his classroom career in Bedfordshire, and it was there, while serving as headteacher of a primary school in the village of Kensworth, that he helped to set up the Travellers school in 1970.
