26 JUNE 1982, Page 21

Not private

Sir: To say that Tony Crosland was educated 'at a private school in Highgate', as A. N. Wilson does in the review of Susan Crosland's recent biography (12 June), sug- gests that her description of his education is incorrect. To put the record straight, and in fairness to Susan Crosland, as well as to Highgate School, it should be said that Tony Crosland went there as a boy of 12 in January 1931, and left with a scholarship to Trinity College, Oxford, in July 1937.

H. F. Hiscocks

Little Crix, Hatfield Peverel, Essex