Died 28 January 1967 | ||
Books Elementary Practical Physics | ||
Leonard Thomas Draycott (1913 – 28 January 1967) was a British headmaster and writer on physics.
Born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire in 1913, Draycott matriculated at King's College London in 1932 and graduated Bachelor of Science in 1935 aged 22. Beginning his career in education, he taught at the King Edward VI Grammar School in his native Nuneaton, where he was a keen cricketer on the staff team, batting in two competitive matches against Warwickshire County Cricket Club and Ground in 1937 and 1938; he scored 5 runs in the first.
Enlisting as a Temporary Instructor to newly conscripted members of the Royal Navy in 1941, he was gazetted as Lieutenant on 7 March 1944. Becoming headmaster of the Anthony Gell Grammar School a decade later, Draycott simultaneously co-authored Elementary Practical Physics in 1954 alongside Kenneth William Lyon; a respected and widely circulated laboratory manual, the work is in its third revision as of 1977. Becoming an associate member of the respected Institute of Physics, he died on 28 January 1967 whilst headmaster of Carlton le Willows Grammar School.