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Among many extraordinary adventures he once inadvertently shared a guesthouse with two of Osama bin Laden’s suicide bombers
IT WAS way back in 1992 when a fresh-faced young teacher began his career at Kings’. So fresh-faced, in fact, that he was often mistaken for one of his own charges. The story goes that he paid half-price when alighting a local bus because the driver mistook him for a pupil. That young man was Rob Jeckells, and for close on three decades he has been Kings’ School to a ‘T’. Past pupils always ask after him and all recall their lessons with him with a fondness that cannot be manufactured. He is known for the way in which he flings himself into everything he tackles – whether that...