Martin Child KC 1964 to 1997
Tuesday, 5 April 2022
We have heard that Martin Child passed away on March 19th. His funeral will be held in Norwich on April 13th. Please email oldcanterburianclub@kentcollege.co.uk  if you would like to attend. 

When Martin retired from Kent College in 1997 Julian Coles wrote:

Martin Child leaves Kent College after many years of service to the school in countless diverse ways. He joined the school in 1964 and it is quite a shock to realise that this was before people had walked on the moon, before the death of Winston Churchill, and even before England had won the World Cup in football! Yes, that long ago!
Although these early years of Martin were before my time, they have still been passed on to many members of the staff through the myths and legends of the common room. These were the years when Martin , and here one feels that legend may be a little exaggerated, excelled at cricket and took countless teams to other schools, where on one occasion he was shot at with an air rifle! Martin not only found time to teach English, direct school plays, and play the organ; he also wrote a light opera romantically titled “Canterbury Bypass” which nearly launched him on the international scene!
However, it is the recent years that I have most in memory and here Martin again contributed in many different ways. Not only was he an excellent teacher, but he also ran the library with flair and efficiency so that it still looks like a new building even though it is a decade old. It was typical of Martin that he kept poetry written by his various classes over nearly thirty years so that he could publish it even in his last term at KC and for many years Martin produced the school magazine literally single-handed. Latterly he also found time to recycle much of the paper used around the school and now that his has left, we find that there are countless small chores to do which he obviously once did quietly and efficiently, probably before most of us arrived in the morning.
Clearly we shall miss Martin and we hope too he will occasionally miss us, as he sites in the stand watching Norwich City regularly at last, now that he is free of the ball and chain of work!