Derek Winterbottom

Derek Winterbottom was born in the UK in 1944 and read Modern History at the University of Oxford and a further degree in Mediaeval Studies at the University of York. He was for many years Head of the History Department at Clifton College, in Bristol, and he served as President of the Bristol Historical Association. He has written some twenty publications in the fields of history, local history and biography, with his two specialities being the English public school system and the history and culture of the Isle of Man, where he is a resident. He spends the winter in Tenerife. where he does most of his writing.