There is a very interesting autobiography of a Claydons schoolteacher, Hubert Chapman of Botolph Claydon, b 1906 who started as a pupil teacher with John Alfred White, the Arthur Walter (a real scholar whose wife taught music; he attended some 'polishing' classes at the larger Steeple Claydon school, where they had a graduate Headmaster (John Thomas Read) keen on Eng;lish literature and himself an author. Hubert did two years uncertificated teachging at a rather rough school on the outskirts of Wycombe. He did eventually get to Culham Training College (a CofE one) where his practical knowledge of teaching made up for something lacking in his theoretical Maths and science. His (much) younger brothers followed an easier track, from a Grammar school (the Royal Latin at Buckingham) straight into Goldsmith's College in London.. I recommend this book 'A Villahe Upbringing' to anyone interested in teaching early last century - and also to anyone interested in the Claydons, since he mentions a vast rane of local people and their families. (I created an index to all the names he mentions, and published it, in three pages, in Bucks Ancestor a few years back. EVE