John Christopher Dancy

John Christopher Dancy (13 November 1920 – 28 December 2019) was an English headmaster, at Lancing College , where he was appointed to improve academic standards, and Marlborough College, and academic. He was best known for his reforms at Marlborough, including the introduction of a coeducational Sixth Form. Life The son of Dr. John Dancy of Richmond, Surrey, and Dr.Naomi Darcy he was educated at Winchester College, and studied at New College, Oxford. Dancy served in the British Army during World War II, first as a 2nd lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade in 1940. He was in its 8th Battalion to 1944, when he became an intelligence officer in the Second Army. He was a General Staff Officer in 30 Corps 1944–5, and in the I Airborne Corps in 1945. Educator After the war, Dancy lectured in classics at Wadham College, Oxford, from 1946 to 1948. He taught as an assistant master at Winchester College from 1948 to 1953, and became headmaster of Lancing College in 1953. where academic standards had fallen. He went on to become Master of Marlborough College, in 1961.