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Tributes to Shropshire schoolmaster "responsible for the 1960s" and inspired Monty Python sketch who died at 97

Tributes have poured in to a Shrewsbury School master who helped unleash the British satirical boom and was said - only half jokingly - to have been “responsible for the 1960s.”

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March 18, 2026 | 2:00 AM UTCUpdated 9h ago

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