One of them is Roy Hubert Straitley, a 65-year-old Classics master who has devoted all his life to St Oswald's and who now, nearing the end of his professional career, finds himself the last surviving member of the dying breed of classics teachers.
Roy Hubert Straitley, a 65-year-old Classics professor at St Oswald's, is the sole remaining teacher in a dying breed of classical educators.