From The lion and the Stars by Peter Burden

A new Headmaster wrote how disappointed he had been at first by the unoriginality of his nickname, 'Pud'. In the end, though, he accepted its appropriateness, for the man provided exactly what the pudding did: 'downright good nourishing food with no fancy fallals about it'. Mr. Seaborne cherished his response to an Inspector who asked how the English department dealt with modern poetry: 'Oh, we don't do any of that nonsense here!' His thoroughness manifested itself in his work on the magazine, the library, prize-giving, his stewardship of Crow House and in his impeccable handwriting. Amazingly, even before his thirty-nine year stint at Bablake he had served for seven years in an elementary school. Some boys were unkind enough to suggest that he had worn the same suit throughout that time. Mr. Rice's sons and a granddaughter became Bablake pupils.

I remember the Pud. He was good however my never having stayed longer at a school for more that 4 years may be compared unfavourably with his "stint" of thirty nine years. Seaborne was not inpressed when I left after only two.
Charles Cook 1957