Peter Iddon: A cricketer, a teacher and an inspiration
22.02.26, 11:02 Updated 26.02.26, 18:24
Paul Edwards
I first met Peter Iddon when I arrived at Merchant Taylors’ School, Crosby in 1967 and the truth is that I barely knew him any better when my family moved to Manchester and I left MT’s two years later. It wasn’t difficult to explain our lack of connection and no one should assume there was the slightest antipathy between us.
As I recall, Peter had been to Merchant’s prep school and knew how the place worked. Such knowledge is valuable and I’m sure I never possessed it. How does one make sense of a joint which lies around five miles from Goodison Park and Anfield yet in which boys were beaten for playing football at lunchtime? Rugby, of course, was a secular religion, which was tough on those of us who had never played it, and the introductory coaching we received was so sympathetic that it fostered a dislike of the game in me that it took a few winters of watching the Five Nations to remove.
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