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Aberdare Boys’ Grammar School

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A. L. Trott’s Class, 1939

from School records via Mark Jefferies
 

A.L. Trott’s Class in 1939

Arthur Luther Trott and his class; sitting next to him, with the mortar board, is the headmaster W. Rees Williams who was about to retire.

A.L. Trott was a staff member at ABGS 1931–46. In addition to his history teaching, he taught Art throughout the school.

As a boy he attended Neath County School then attended U.C. Swansea, 1925–31, winning a first-class degree in history. Much later in life he was awarded an M.A. (1941) and M.Ed. (1946).

He left Aberdare County School in 1946 to take up a lectureship at Llandrindod Wells Emergency Training College. From there he moved to UCW Aberystwyth to be come a lecturer in education.

Arthur Luther Trott, b. 1907, Skewen; d. 1976, Aberystwyth.