A poem called "The Short History of a War" was published in a recent number of the Oxford Magazine (No 408, Trinity term 2019). There were three poems in the same magazine (in January 2019: He is now a full-time writer. He recently retired from being one of the six Trustees of the Beit Trust, which exists to help the people of Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi, in particular with

One of the advantages of forced idleness is that I’ve had time to sketch out the framework for a long poem in my head.” Alan Paton's Hofmeyr". Race & Class. 6 (4): 269–280. 1965. doi: 10.1177/030639686500600403. ISSN 0306-3968. S2CID 143844131.For the One Only" was in the Spectator (March 10, 2018) and another, "An Old Man & His Wife", in the Spectator (November 2, 2018). "Manifesto" – a defence of the iambic pentameter - appeared After a year's teaching at Sevenoaks School, he went to Trinity College, Oxford, to read for an M.Phil, and afterwards taught again at Sevenoaks School and then at Matthew Humberstone

These experiences bound us together. We repeated the Bach-Driver combination several times, Jonty reading Requiemhimself one Good Friday when it represented animaginative reworking of the middle hour of a traditional Three Hours’ Devotion. The cookie is set by CasaleMedia. The cookie is used to collect information about the usage behavior for targeted advertising. Before. Crane River in association with the Africa Sun Press. August 2018. ISBN 9781909717978. (A collection of 22 poems) It was really through this sequence of poems that I came to know Jonty well. We had met through a shared love of haiku. He had been perhaps over-generous in writing about my own attempts at the genre. He never of course lost the teacher’s desire to encourage nor the ability to do so. But when I read Requiemfor the first time I saw the chance to do something creative with it. Jonty had explained that Brahms’ German Requiem,a much more “secular” requiem than the liturgical texts usually set, had been the inspiration for him. It seemed obvious to me to wrap music around the poetry. So I asked the cellist Guy Johnston, then a recent winner of BBC Young Musician of the Year, to weave a Bach cello suite “around” Jonty’s poetry. It was one of those happenstances in response to which you could hear a pin drop, as an entranced congregation of hundreds in Westminster Abbey oneSunday eveningpaid rapt attention to both music and text, and found in them a depth of spiritual encounter that was as moving for them as for the author and Ann, his wife of almost fifty years to whom he was so devoted. When, later, I suggested that Jonty himself be asked to read lines of Shakespeare at the conclusion of the Thanksgiving Service for the life of Nelson Mandela in the Abbey, he was both thrilled, honoured, and humbled.

Jonty and Maeder Osler, owner of Hanglip Farm and founder of Toverview, were close friends, and were sharing accommodation in Cape Town when Jonty was detained. Maeder stood in for him as NUSAS president during his detention, and succeeded him in this position after his departure. They were able to renew their friendship in the 1990s, when Jonty was allowed to return to South Africa, and Jonty, his wife Ann, and their children became regular visitors at Hanglip Farm. So-called retirement from Wellington at sixty saw a veritable Indian summer in writing. A fifth and final novel, a memoir about the schools he had served and shaped memoirs of an historical kind, one for Granta prompted by a photograph of his friends in the 1960s or, most recently, by the obvious debt he felt to Robert Birley. Although Driver spent several decades living abroad in England, his early life in South Africa always remained a key focus in his writing and he was an active participant and supportive presence in the local literary community. He will live on in his written works and the memories of family and friends. Abbey in 2014, read by the Revd Christopher Chivers, and has been similarly used in the John Keble church in North London and at St Mary's in the Marsh.

Jonty is survived by his wife Ann, his children Dominic, Dax and Tamlyn, and his grandchildren. My thoughts are with them and his many loved ones at this time. From here, Jonty Driver gained his first headship, that of the Island International School in Hong Kong, here too ensuring the school’s rise to educational distinction. Five pamphlets, made in co-operation with Artwrite Ltd of Rye, were published in 2019/20: the first is IMAGE & IMAGE, Some Old Photographs & Twelve Unrhymed Sonnets. Six of the photographs Driver’s life was full of searching and longing, for South Africa, and in particular his beloved Karoo. The joy he felt at the coming to power in the mid-1990s of Nelson Mandela and the ANC evaporated in his latter years, when it became clear that the ANC had lost its way. Master of Eton and, after his retirement, he went to the University of the Witwatersrand as Visiting Professor of Education. He had, between his stints at Charterhouse & Eton, been i/c theTerrorist, Crane River, 2015. Used to be Great Friends, an essay in autobiography, originally published in Granta in 2002, was issued in an expanded form as an e-book by Driver published five novels: Elegy for a Revolutionary (1969), Send War In Our Time, O Lord (1970), Death of Fathers (1972), A Messiah of the Last Days (1974), and Shades of Darkness (2004). As you enter Chapel, the stained-glass windows on the right hand side are called the Presidents’ Windows. They carry the names and crests of all six of Wellington’s Presidents. The College has existed as a school for 163 years and has had 15 Masters; isn’t it remarkable that in all that time it has only had 6 Presidents? While I, and many others, seek to come to terms with the death of a friend, it’s a far greater challenge for Jonty’s wife, Ann, their children, Dominic, Dax and Tam, their spouses, and eight grandchildren.

Driver married Ann Hoogweerf shortly after. Hugely intelligent, sensitive and supportive, she was the love of his life: he said that he knew they would marry the first moment he saw her at a party in Chelsea in the late 1960s.

The translator and facilitator was a charismatic young teacher, Sizwe Dyasi, then a popular figure at the school and among the town’s young people in general. At the time, Jonty remarked: ‘That young man deserves a good future.” Whether or not this has come to pass is of course yet another story. SOME SCHOOLS, described as a "professional memoir", was published by John Catt Educational Ltd in September 2016. It is an 80,000 word account of the various schools Jonty Driver worked in after On Friday 2nd November 2018 (All Souls' Day) Jonty read his sequence of poems, REQUIEM, in the parish church of Ewhurst Green. Martin Bradshaw, cellist, played excerpts from Bach's Cello in 2000), and two memoirs, My Brother & I (Kingston University Press, 2013), and The Man with the Suitcase:The Life, Execution and Rehabilitation of John Harris, Liberal He was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, United States of America, in the fall of 2009, and a fellow at the Hawthornden Writers" Retreat in March/April 2011.