J M Steane was the husband of Nina Carroll and very much involved in the life of Kettering and Northampton: he was Headmaster at Kettering Grammar School from 1964 – 1976 and the Editor of ‘Northamptonshire Past and Present’ a privately published newsletter to which he also contributed book and poetry reviews. After he moved with Nina Carroll to Oxford in 1976 he became the County Archeologist for Oxfordshire.
Private Collection, Northamptonshire UK