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My friend Peggy George, who has died aged 93, was a history teacher known for the significant contribution she made to education in Wales.

Spending much of her career at Olchfa school, Swansea, where she rose to become deputy head and an examinations officer, in the 1980s Peggy was chair of the history panel of the Welsh Joint Education Committee, the schools exam body for Wales, helping to oversee the introduction of the first GCSE history exam in 1988, as well as changes to history A-levels. She was also chair of the Association of History Teachers in Wales from 1990 to 2007.

Peggy was born in Caerphilly to Gwyneth and Trevor Davies. She went from Caerphilly girls’ grammar school to study history at Cardiff University, where she stayed on to do teacher training.

Her first job was at Maesteg grammar school in 1959, before a move to Sandfields school in Port Talbot. The remainder of her career, from 1976, was spent at Olchfa school, where she was an active member of the National Union of Teachers, serving as the secretary of its West Glamorgan and Swansea branches.

After retiring from Olchfa in 1988 she continued to work for the union as a caseworker, and became a member and chair of the governing body of Bishop Gore school in Swansea.

A formidable operator and strong personality, Peggy had a reputation for getting things done, but her go-getting instincts were tempered by the caring support and guidance she lavished upon pupils, teachers and her wide circle of friends.

She married Reg George, a lecturer at Swansea University, in 1957, and throughout their time together they shared a love of music and travel.

Reg died in 2006.