AN "inspirational" Keighley art teacher who has influenced hundreds of lives has died, aged 95.

Seonaid Robertson taught at the old Keighley Grammar School - now Greenhead High School - in the Second World War years and has also published books about art in education.

Lady Edna Healey, wife of veteran labour politician Denis Healey worked alongside Ms Robertson in her first teaching post.

Lady Healey said: "Seonaid was a woman of tremendous inspiration. She inspired all the girls - anyone who was taught by her will remember her.

She was the art mistress and she always said she hoped that she had influenced them, that they would take art with them after school, into their homes.

She often used to like to go to visit the girls to see whom she had had an affect on and whom she hadn't."

Born in Perth, after teaching in Suffolk and Keighley, Ms Robertson spent a year at Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art.

She also spent 1944 reading psychology at London University, where she began to write her first book, Creative Crafts in Education.

During this time she worked as an art advisor for the West Riding of Yorkshire and became a founding member and art education senior lecturer at Bretton Hall College, near Wakefield.

During 1955-57 she was a senior fellow at Leeds University. Her final job was as a lecturer in education at London University and she retired in the 1970.