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Joseph Lloyd Carr 20 May — 26 February , who called himself "Jim" or "James", was an English novelist , publisher, teacher and eccentric. His father Joseph, the eldest of 12 children of a tenant farmer, [ 1 ] went to work for the railways, eventually becoming a station master then traffic controller for the North Eastern Railway. His brother Raymond, who was also a station master, and other members of his family called him Lloyd.

Carr attended the village school at Carlton Miniott, where there was an innovative headmaster named James Milner, [ 4 ] but when the family moved to Sherburn-in-Elmet when he was about 9 years old, the school in the village was poorly run and he learned little.

A month in the country by jl carr

Carr failed the county examination to gain entry to Tadcaster Grammar School, so at the age of 13 his parents enrolled him at Castleford Secondary School as a fee-paying student. After passing his school certificate examination he stayed on for a year in the sixth form and applied for admission to a teachers' training college, because the local authority would pay his fees.

However, when he was interviewed at Goldsmiths' College , London, he was asked why he wanted to be a teacher. Carr answered: "Because it leaves so much time for other pursuits. Over forty years later, after his novel The Harpole Report had become a critical and popular success, he was invited to give a talk at Goldsmiths'. He replied that the college had had its chance of being addressed by him.

He worked for a school year in —31 as a supernumerary teacher at South Milford Primary School, where he played football for South Milford White Rose, a team which got to the semi-final of the Barkston Ash Cup and won the local league. Cup , [ 5 ] taken to an extreme as the title implies.