Casey, Donna

Mike Harrington was born in the English Lake District in 1941. At the time his father was doing wartime service in the Royal Artillery. After the war the family moved to Essex, where Mike attended Brentwood School. His boyhood wish to be an scientist or engineer was thwarted by his weakness in maths, so he eventually became a classicist. At The Queen's College, Oxford, he read Literae Humaniores from 1960 to 1964 and stayed another year to gain a teaching qualification. In 1965 he started his first job as a teacher of Classics at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. In 1970 he joined the