Robin Harskin
Robin was born in Sutton, a thirty-minute drive north of The Yehudi Menuhin School, and he developed his lifelong love of classical music at a young age by listening to Radio 3 with his Canadian mother.
After reading Modern Languages at the University of Oxford he continued his studies at University College London, spending a year teaching at the Sorbonne in Paris and attaining his PhD in French poetry in 1996.
Robin's teaching career has taken him to Sevenoaks School in Kent, King's College School in Wimbledon, Magdalen College School in Oxford, where he was Head of Modern Languages, and two prep schools in Oxford, Summer Fields and Christ Church Cathedral School, where he was Academic Deputy/Director of Studies on both occasions. He has also taken time away from teaching, firstly returning to the University of Oxford to complete an MPhil in Politics, and secondly to write a novel based on the true story of his Jewish family's flight from Russia at the end of the nineteenth century.
In his spare time, Robin loves to read, play chess, and travel, and he claims he can play jazz piano, but few believe him. His son, Luke, is currently in Leeds studying to become a teacher.