Russell Harty was an English teacher and Richard Whiteley his pupil at which public school?
Russell Harty family, in the episode "Written on the Body", taken from his semi-biography "Untold Stories". He had strong connections with the village of Giggleswick in North Yorkshire: before beginning his TV career he worked as an English teacher at Giggleswick School, where one of his pupils was Richard Whiteley, the future journalist, TV presenter, and host of "Countdown". Anthony Daniels, C-3PO in "Star Wars" was also a pupil. Harty subsequently lived in the heart of Giggleswick village. In 1988, Harty became ill with hepatitis B and started treatment at the St James's University Hospital, Leeds. "The Sun" started a campaign of
Russell Harty Russell Harty Fredric Russell Harty (5 September 1934 – 8 June 1988) was a British television presenter of arts programmes and chat shows. Harty was the son of Fred Harty, a fruit and vegetable stallholder on the local market in Blackburn, Lancashire, and Myrtle Rishton. He attended Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School on West Park Road where he enjoyed appearing in school plays and met, for the first time, the then English teacher Ronald Eyre who directed a number of the productions and thereafter at Exeter College, Oxford, where he obtained a degree in English Literature. On leaving university, Harty became