Stones had fought his way out of the poverty of the Yorkshire mining village of Wath upon Dearne. A local education authority scholarship allowed him access to Wath Grammar School, but his parents could not afford for him to continue in education beyond the age of 15, so in 1937 he took up an engineering apprenticeship in the Royal Air Force, travelling to India and Egypt and making use of the free time he had to read widely.On purchasing his discharge from the RAF in the 1950s, he then read Psychology at Sheffield University, supported by the Ministry of Education on condition that he teach for five years in state schools. "There are a lot of subtleties in how the greenhouse effect on Venus works that we still don't understand," Professor Taylor said.One question the Venus Express probe may be able to answer is whether the many volcanoes on Venus are still active. He was highly critical of the dominant paradigm of intelligence testing in educational psychology, with intelligence (or IQ) viewed as some sort of given that teachers could not alter, arguing instead that it was the role of the teacher to develop children's learning skills and attributes. Stones's contribution to the development of educational psychology was to use a series of case studies to show that teachers' practical teaching skills could be allied to theoretical psychological perspectives on human learning to produce insights combining the theoretical and practical, hence the notion of psychopedagogy.In many ways, Ed Stones embodied this mix of the practical and the theoretical in his own life.

He rejected the term educational psychology, however, in favour of "psychopedagogy", and this was more than mere semantics. Edgar Stones was a psychologist whose interest in children and learning led him to the field of educational psychology. Edgar Stones, educational psychologist: born Wath upon Dearne, Yorkshire 19 October 1922; William Roscoe Professor of Education, Liverpool University 1972-82 (Emeritus), Director, Institute of Education 1972-82; married (one son, one daughter); died Birmingham 27 September 2005. Peter invited his parents to America and, when Owen retired aged 60, they lived near their son in New York State.After five years, however, they returned to live in Sussex. Owen Frampton became ill in his last years but stayed in touch with his former pupils as well as his sons Peter and Clive, who sang a specially composed tribute song, "Not Forgotten", at his memorial service.Chris Welch. When the Herd asked me to join, he said, "If Peter worked at the post office he'd get £15 a week. So he should get the same in the Herd." As it turned out the band earned a lot more but I still only got my £15 Dad didn't think about that.

I got rid of him as my manager after that!Mr and Mrs Frampton went to see their son perform many times when he became a star with Humble Pie and a highly successful solo artist. In 1976, Frampton Comes Alive sold 12 million copies and was hailed as the biggest-selling "live" album of all time. My younger brother Clive stayed at the school for five years, but I left after a fracas with one of the pupils my dad didn't get on with I was beaten up after school. That's why I was sent to Bromley Grammar, although David and George stayed on. When David saw me on Top of the Pops with my first group, the Herd, he shouted: "That's Peter - he should be at school!"My dad was my first manager.