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David Duncan was born and educated in Sunderland. He worked as a journalist for a time and then served in the RAF for five years before going to Manchester University to read Modern History with Economics and Politics. After teaching in primary schools in Manchester and South Shields and secondary schools in Sunderland and Middlesbrough, he became Vice-Principal at Stockton Sixth Form College. He retired in 1986. Soon after leaving the Communist Party he joined the Labour Party. He died in 2003.