Peter Garwood
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Peter Hugh William Garwood (29 May 1931 – 19 April 2020) was an English schoolmaster and inspector for HM Inspectorate of Schools (now Ofsted) in the West Midlands, Devon and Cornwall, and the Channel Islands.
Born in Finchley, Garwood was the son of William Garwood, an accountant, and his wife, Kate Manders, and was an only child.[1][2]
During the Second World War, he was evacuated to Oxfordshire, before rejoining his parents when they moved to Rabley Heath, Welwyn, Hertfordshire. From 1944 he was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College in that county.[1][3]
For his National Service, Garwood trained at the Mons Officer Cadet School and on 21 October 1950 was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the 4th Battalion, the King's African Rifles.[4] He was posted to Nanyuki, where in his troop was a young corporal, Idi Amin, whom he remembered as a good soldier but a violent young man.[1]
In October 1951, on his return to England, Garwood joined New College, Oxford, to read history, graduating in 1954.[1] While at Oxford, he was an officer of the 3rd (Oxford University) Volunteer Battalion of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, with the rank of acting Lieutenant from June 1952.[5] In May 1954, Garwood was promoted to Lieutenant.[6]