My father, Jai Nath Misra – known to everyone as Mick – who has died aged 87, was a mechanical engineer turned maths teacher who taught in schools in Hertfordshire for more than a quarter of a century.
Born in Jaipur in India, he was the fifth living child of Susheela Chaturvedi and Kailesh Misra, and grew up in Bulandshahar in Uttar Pradesh. His father left the family when he was two years old and he grew up with his mother in an extended household consisting of his siblings and a number of cousins, uncles and aunts.
