The former head of a Sussex school which helped children with behavioural and emotional problems has died aged 73.

Anthony Rodway was the principal of Tylehurst School in Forest Row, which closed in 1985.

He joined the staff when it was a small, progressive, co-educational school.

In 1958, Mr Rodway, with help from friends, established a charitable trust to buy it and establish it as a school for children referred by local authorities who had been diagnosed as "maladjusted".

The son of a nursery school headmistress and a businessman, Mr Rodway grew up in Oxted, Surrey.

He was educated at Bradfield, where he got the top scholarship, but hated it and was then sent to the progressive Long Dene School.

He studied psychology at Reading University before getting the job at Tylehurst. He ran the school, as founder and principal, for 27 years until its closure in July 1985.

By then, local authorities, burdened by financial constraints, were referring fewer boys to the school.

Even after its closure, he continued with the aftercare and counselling of former pupils until his death.