Bill Broderick obituary

My father, Bill Broderick, who has died aged 80 of Covid-19, was an educationist ahead of his time in the field of computing. His vision and enthusiasm led to the first computer being installed in a British secondary school, the Royal Liberty school in Romford, Essex, where he was a maths teacher, in 1965.

In a broadcast by the BBC programme Tomorrow's World from the school, Bill said: Computers are as radical and important a keystone to our standard of living and industrial wellbeing as was the steam engine."