He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English and continued to play cricket in Sydney.
In 1970 he was invited to return to the Knox Grammar School to oversee the creation and development of a new senior boarding house.
In 1978 he became the first principal of the amalgamated coeducational Scotch Oakburn College[1] in Launceston.
In mid 1985 he was appointed Headmaster of Cranbrook,[4] a position he held for sixteen years.
They have two sons: Jonathan Carter, the eldest, is corporate counsel for APRA (the Australasian Performing Right Association); Nicholas, the younger, is an English Master at the Shore School in North Sydney.