Arthur Foot

Foot) (21 June 1901 – 26 September 1968), was an English schoolmaster, educationalist and academic.

He then went out to India to take up the position of first headmaster at the Doon School, Dehradun, where he remained until 1948.

In India he was active as a radio broadcaster on educational topics between 1936 and 1945, was chairman of the Indian Public Schools Conference for 1943–44, and served on the Commander-in-Chief's Indian National War Academy Committee in 1945–46.

[6] After leaving Doon, Foot returned to England and subsequently went on to become the first headmaster of Ottershaw School,[7][8][9][10] retiring in 1964.

He died on 26 September 1968, when his address in Who's Who was given as Pitter Cottage, Crawley, Winchester, Hampshire.

Arthur and Sylvia Foot flanking Lord Mountbatten , 1948