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David Wallis-Jones was my best friend at George Eliot Primary school which we both attended 1952-56. He had a very inquiring mind and we made all sort of science experiments together in our teens (including distilling home made beer and making bombs). We went to different secondary schools (Kynaston, William Ellis) but hung out together around the Witches Cauldron, Belsize Park and went on Aldermaston marches in our late-teens. Later we went our different ways. We met again when I was teaching maths at Hampstead school and David was headteacher of Fitzjohns PS and attended a meeting about promary secondary links. I heard he was an exemplary headteacher running a very happy and successful school. Years later we met at several George Eliot class reunions 2006 and onwards, when I came up from Exeter to meet former classmates. He also came to a party at our West Hampstead house. He was a rare good man who gave more than he took from this life. My condolences. Paul Ernest (emeritus professor, Exeter University).