International Baccalaureate

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Photo Article – a blue plaque goes up for Uncle Head

That was not his real name. And he was my father’s uncle my great uncle but he was always known as Head. That is because Alex Peterson was a founder and head of the International Baccalaureate, the “IB.” I remember him from visits to the house he shared with my grandmother’s sister, his wife Corrie, in St John’s Wood as a teenager.

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