Robin Pedley (11 August 1914 – 20 November 1988) was a British educationist whose publication laid much of the foundations of comprehensive education in the United Kingdom.
He was raised in Grinton, near Reeth, in the then North Riding of Yorkshire, and went to the local Fremington School.
Pedley won an Ellerton Scholarship to Durham University, where he graduated with an upper-second in History and Economics in 1935.
[3] He gained his teaching certificate the following year, followed by a doctorate in 1939 - which he wrote on the political and economic history of the northern Pennines.
[6] At the University he began to develop his ideas on comprehensive schools, which he had visited from the early 1950s.
His son worked as a teacher, for Pearson Education, and later became a college Principal both in the UK and overseas.