7 JULY 1979, Page 16

Anthony Chenevix-Trench

Sir: Two weeks ago a great headmaster died. The one national daily that now writes about these events covered his life's work in about 50 lines; it was an inadequate record of his achievements and failures. With the passing of The Times, could not the Spectator record such lives for our benefit? Michael Ritchie The Ancient Forresters, Bush End, Takeley, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire