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Mar 9, 2012 · The Boys' Wyggeston School had been opened one year earlier and already was craving for ... The 6 girls went to the Wyggeston Grammar School for Girls and the 2 boys went to the Wyggeston ...
When they first came to Leicester, Richard Attenborough was eight, David was five and youngest brother John had just turned four. All three boys attended Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys, now Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College, which backs onto the University meaning they had a very short walk to school each day.
Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys has made local news more than once throughout the decades. He grew up living on the campus of the University of Leicester, where his father Frederick was principal. It's clear that David was surrounded by academics and scholars throughout his childhood - something that makes sense looking at his career later in life.
Wyggeston Grammar School for Girls was founded not long after the Victorian boys' school. In 1981 it merged with another girls' grammar school in Leicester, Collegiate Girls' School, and stopped taking in girls at eleven. It instead became a Sixth Form college known as Wyggeston Collegiate Sixth Form College.
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Attenborough was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys in Leicester. He won a scholarship to Clare College, Cambridge in 1945 to study geology and zoology and obtained a degree in natural sciences. In 1947, he was called up for national service in the Royal Navy and spent two years stationed in North Wales and the Firth of Forth.
