University of Southampton. Publications Comprehensive Schools Today, 1955 Comprehensive Education: a new approach, 1956 The Comprehensive School, 1963 (3rd edition, 1978), Pelican Books; his most influential book, greatly popularising the idea of comprehensive schools. The Comprehensive School, 1966 Towards the Comprehensive University, 1977 Personal life He married in Leicester in 1951 and had a son, William (born 1953) and a daughter (born 1955). His son worked as a teacher, for Pearson Education, and later became a college Principal both in the UK and overseas. In his later life Robin Pedley lived at Brockenhurst, Hampshire. He died aged 74 in Wiltshire. His daughter married in March 1984 in the New Forest District. His son married in July 1998 in the New Forest District. His son had a daughter in June 1998, and a son in December 2001 (named after his father). His son married a Dutch woman, and lived at Wellingborough in Northamptonshire. See also Sir Graham Savage, similar advocate of comprehensive schools in the 1920s References External links Comprehensive pioneer 1914 births 1988 deaths Academics of the University of Exeter Academics of the University of Leicester Academics of the University of Southampton Alumni of University College, Durham British conscientious objectors Comprehensive education Deaths from dementia in England Deaths from Alzheimer's disease English educational theorists Schoolteachers from Yorkshire British schoolteachers People associated with Plymouth Marjon University People from Brockenhurst