[1] John Dunston studied Modern Foreign Languages at the University of Cambridge.
He was an English language assistant at the Gymnasium Eppendorf, Hamburg (1973–74), a teacher and housemaster at Cheltenham Grammar School 1975–79, a teacher at Bancroft's School, Woodford Green (1979–90, head of modern languages from 1983).
[3] In 1996, he became head at Leighton Park School in Reading, Berkshire.
[5] He was also Chairman of the Association for the Education and Guardianship of International Students (AEGIS) and the Society of Headmasters & Headmistresses of Independent Schools (SHMIS).
He is a governor of Shiplake College, Oxfordshire, and The John Lyon School, Harrow.