Carlton Duncan

Duncan‘s early life was largely about hardship and measured poverty in Jamaica. Going strongly in his favour was his ambitions, determination to lift himself to greater heights. Duncan took the first opportunity to follow in his parent‘s footsteps and migrated to the United Kingdom in the early 1960‘s. Now the obstacles were racial, but he circumvented them, acquired a string of academic degrees, entered the Teaching profession and in just over thirteen years, established himself, in West Yorkshire as Britain‘s first Black Headmaster of a secondary school: a feat that Duncan would repeat four years later when he was appointed to the headship of one of Birmingham largest schools.