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British headteacher (1949–2020)

Sir Bruce Liddington (1949 – 28 July 2020) was the schools commissioner in 2006 under Tony Blair's Government.

He came from a poor area of Wellingborough and did his degree in English at Queen Mary College, and a PGCE in Cambridge. He started his teaching career in Conisbrough, and rose to headteacher at Northampton School for Boys which he improved then and changed its status from a LEA school to a grant maintained school.

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For this he received a knighthood.

He moved to the Department of Education advising on the details of converting to academy status. He was employed as a senior civil servant responsible for the roll out of academies.

Liddington became boss of the academy sponsor E-ACT, outlining his mission 'to improve the lot of the most-deprived children'.^[1] Liddington was disgraced and resigned from the chain of a