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| AdminHistory | FO Mann (c1882 - c1930) was educated at a state school in south London and, due to an unexpected turn of events regarding his dismissal from the LCC Service where he was training as a Pupil Teacher, was sponsored to attend Balliol College, Oxford. Soon after graduating he began training as HMI in Lancashire under FT Howard before the outbreak of the First World War. He was rejected for active service due to a weak heart and served as Secretary to the Munitions Committee during which time he began sketching cartoons. Before the end of the War he transferred to the Ministry of Labour where he devised the Emergency Training Colleges for training demobbed servicemen who expressed an interest in teaching or running Boys Clubs returning later to the Board of Education. |