PROUD parents Dorothy and Jack Atkinson were celebrating their son becoming a professor even though he failed his 11-plus.
Ronald Atkinson, from Blackburn, became professor of physics at Belfast University.
PROUD parents Dorothy and Jack Atkinson were celebrating their son becoming a professor even though he failed his 11-plus.
Ronald Atkinson, from Blackburn, became professor of physics at Belfast University.
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