The son of William Henry Foot, by his marriage to Harriet Pearson, the young Foot was educated at
Winchester College and at
Trinity College, Cambridge. From 1923 to 1934 he was an assistant master at
Eton, acting as secretary of the national Science Masters' Association from 1932 to 1934. He then went out to India to take up the position of first headmaster at
the Doon School,
Dehradun, where he remained until 1948. In India he was active as a radio broadcaster on educational topics between 1936 and 1945, was chairman of the
Indian Public Schools Conference for 1943–44, and served on the Commander-in-Chief's Indian National War Academy Committee in 1945–46. After leaving
Doon, Foot returned to England and subsequently went on to become the first headmaster of
Ottershaw School, retiring in 1964. He was president of the Surrey County Teachers' Association for 1955–1956. In 1935, he had married Sylvia Hartill and they had one son and one daughter. He died on 26 September 1968, when his address in ''
Who's Who'' was given as Pitter Cottage,
Crawley,
Winchester,
Hampshire. ==Honours==