C A Joyce

Cyril Alfred "C A" Joyce (12 June 1900 – 5 November 1976) was a British prison manager and headmaster of an approved school.

He was born in Derby, Derbyshire, England on 12 June 1900.^[1][2] Joyce served in the army during World War I, and afterwards in the Army Education Corps.^[3] He then took a degree at University College, Southampton.^[3] He joined the prison service in 1922.^[3] In 1933,^[4][5] Joyce married Janet Gertrude Oxenham Froggatt (4 September 1904 – 26 August 1974).^[6][7]

One of his charges at a borstal (Hollesley Bay)^[8] was the young IRA volunteer and novelist Brendan Behan, known for his autobiographical novel, Borstal Boy.^[9]

He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 30 October 1971.^[10]

A biography of Joyce, The hidden boy, by Richard Heron Ward, was published in 1962.^[11] His autobiography, Thoughts of a Lifetime, was published in 1971.^[12]

Joyce's wife was an accomplished sculptor.^[3] He died at Wootton, Isle of Wight, on 5 November 1976, aged 76.^[2][13]

• Richard, Heron Ward (1962). The hidden boy: The work of C.A.Joyce as headmaster of an approved school. Cassell.

• —— (1971). Thoughts of a Lifetime. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0551000391.

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