![]() He died on Octoat Ipswich Hospital aged 88. After living in London for much of his life, Vansittart moved to Suffolk to a house inherited from his mother. ![]() For many years he made money by letting rooms in a house in Hampstead which he bought for £200 in cash from an acquaintance in a pub in the 1940s. He wrote a novel about his time as a schoolteacher called Broken Canes. He worked as a schoolteacher at progressive schools - most notably Burgess Hill School, Hampstead - for 25 years before becoming a full-time writer. Peter Vansittart was educated at Marlborough House School, Haileybury College and Worcester College, Oxford, although he spent only a year at Oxford and did not graduate. ![]() He was a distant cousin of Robert Vansittart, Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between 19. He was born in Bedford in 1920, the son of Edwin Morris and Mignon Vansittart. ![]()
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