{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Kenneth Durham''' (died 6 August 2016) was a British schoolteacher, educationalist, and headmaster of University College School (1996-2013).<ref name="Deaths Announcement"/> He was the brother of Geoffrey Durham, the British comedy magician and actor who was married to writer and comedian Victoria Wood.
Durham was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead and studied at Brasenose College, Oxford.<ref name=ww97>{{cite book |title=Who's Who |year=1997 |publisher=A & C Black |location=London |isbn=0-7136-4495-8}}</ref> He taught economics at St Albans School, before becoming Director of Studies and Head of Economics at King's College School, Wimbledon.<ref name=ww97/> In 1996 he was appointed Headmaster of University College School,<ref name=ww97/> which is part of the Eton Group of independent schools. He wrote several books on Economics education.
Durham died, after a long illness, on 6 August 2016 at the age of 62.<ref name="Deaths Announcement">{{cite web | url=http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/205312/durham | title=DURHAM – Deaths Announcements |work= The Daily Telegraph | date=August 2016 | accessdate=March 14, 2018 | author=Geoffrey Durham}}</ref>
==Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference==
Durham was a member of the GSA/HMC Professional Development Sub-Committee and Chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC). He was also a co-opted member of the HMC committee in 2006-07, being HMC Head of Professional Development.<ref name =Deb>{{cite web|url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/d/18902/Kenneth%20John+DURHAM.aspx|title= Debretts: Kenneth John Durham Esq|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130816105041/http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/d/18902/Kenneth%20John+DURHAM.aspx |archive-date=16 August 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>
==Selected publications== * Durham, K. (1992). ''The New City''. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan.
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