Born in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England, he attended Bristol Grammar School.

An IT room and a scholarship are named after him at Bristol Grammar School, as is a supercomputer at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.

Category: People educated at Bristol Grammar School

* Henry VIII of England grants the Thorne brothers a Royal Charter to found Bristol Grammar School.

* Peter Haggett CBE FBA ( b. 1933 ), eminent academic geographer and professor at University of Bristol, educated at Dr Morgan's Grammar School in Bridgwater

* Fairfield Grammar School, Bristol, England

Category: People educated at Bristol Grammar School

He was educated at the John Lyon School, a boys ' independent school in Harrow on the Hill in London and also at Bristol Grammar School in Bristol, where he was a classmate of Julian Glover.

Wedlock was educated at Bristol Grammar School in the 1950s.

Category: People educated at Bristol Grammar School

After studying at Portsmouth Northern Grammar School ( now the Mayfield School ) and reading archaeology and anthropology at the University of Cambridge, he became a lecturer at the University of Bristol in 1963.

He attended Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School in 1884, before moving on to attend Bristol Grammar School, where in 1885 he wrote a play, which he performed together with other students.

At about the same time his first drawings and cartoons were published in the school newspaper of the Bristol Grammar School Past and Present.

Born in Bristol, England, he was educated at Bristol Grammar School, and served his compulsory National Service as a clerk in Calcutta and later in the Combined Services Entertainments Unit in Singapore where he entertained the troops alongside John Schlesinger, Stanley Baxter, and Kenneth Williams, before going on to study acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Category: People educated at Bristol Grammar School

She attended Scunthorpe Grammar School and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Originally from Bristol, he spent his primary school years there and later in his childhood moved to Bolton, Lancashire, where he attended Bolton County Grammar School.

Category: People educated at Bristol Grammar School

Woodward was educated at the independent Bristol Grammar School, Jesus College, Cambridge, where he studied English Literature, and Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar.

Category: People educated at Bristol Grammar School

Ennis was born in Grimethorpe, near Barnsley in Yorkshire, the son of a coal miner and educated at the Hemsworth Grammar School on Station Road ( which became Hemsworth High School and since 2001, the Hemsworth Arts and Community College ) before attending the Redland Teachers Training College near Bristol where he was awarded a Bachelor of Education degree in 1975.

* β-Carotene website by Martha Evens, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol

Despite the setbacks, Gandhi chose to continue studying in England and spent a few months at the Badminton School in Bristol before clearing the Oxford entrance exam in 1937.

* Molecule of the Month – School of Chemistry, University of Bristol

Richardson enrolled at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where she studied alongside Daniel Day-Lewis, having started out with juvenile performances in Cinderella and Lord Arthur Savile's Crime at the Southport Dramatic Club.

Instead, he enrolled at Bristol Medical School in October 1868, when he was 20.

He lived with his parents at Downend throughout the period but began his medical career when he enrolled at Bristol Medical School on 7 October 1868.

He began his medical training at Bristol Medical School in 1867 and afterwards trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital and Westminster Hospital Medical School, both in London.

Grace had to catch up with his studies at Bristol Medical School and he and his wife and son lived at Downend until February 1875 with his mother, brother Fred and sister Fanny.

Tree's early education included Mrs Adams's Preparatory School at Frant, Dr Stone's school in King's Square, Bristol, and Westbourne collegiate school in Westbourne Grove, London.

Robert Southey was born in Wine Street, Bristol, England, to Robert Southey and Margaret Hill and educated at Westminster School, London, ( from which he was expelled for writing a magazine article in The Flagellant condemning flogging ) and Balliol College, Oxford.

Category: Alumni of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School

Born in Bristol, he was educated at Blundell's School and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge as third wrangler in the mathematics tripos before turning to physiology.

Bananarama were founded in London in 1979 by Fahey, Woodward and Dallin, the latter two having been childhood friends in Bristol since the age of four, and attending St. George's School for Girls together.

* John S. Battle High School, Bristol

* Bristol Bay School

Young residents of South Naknek attend high school at Bristol Bay High School, in Naknek, Alaska.

Two schools are based in Bristol: Liberty County High School and W. R. Tolar Elementary and Middle School.

Most of the South West occupies a peninsula between the English Channel and Bristol Channel.

At Bristol Temple Meads railway station, the floating harbour occupies the original bed of the River Avon and meanders through Bristol city centre, Canon's Marsh and Hotwells.

The Clifton Club in Bristol was founded in 1818 and occupies an imposing building.

It occupies part of the former Great Western Railway's Tyseley depot, which was constructed in 1908 as a result of expanding operations in the West Midlands, particularly the opening of the North Warwickshire Line as a new main line from Birmingham to Bristol.