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The first careers master to be appointed in a public school was almost certainly Stephen Foot, who took on the job at Eastbourne College in 1920. Until then careers advice had been regarded as mainly the province of headmasters. In his autobiography Three Lives, published in 1934, Mr. Foot attributed the rapid spread of such appointments to other schools partly to a series of articles he wrote in Daily Telegraph, following which he was overwhelmed with requests for help not only from schools and parents all over the British Isles but also from countless parents stationed abroad. He wrote:

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