Educated in the local school, Bennett was a good student, but something of a loner.

Several foundlings appear in Terry Pratchett's Discworld: most notably Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson ( found as a toddler among the ruins of a caravan party attacked by bandits, surrounded by the bodies of the adults ; Carrot was adopted and raised by the dwarfs who discovered him, and was surprised to learn at age 16-and 6ft 6in tall-that he was not a dwarf ; mounting evidence suggests that Carrot is the scion of the deposed Ankh-Morpork royal family, but he himself has suppressed this as much as possible, considering the role of police captain to be a preferable one in which to safeguard his city and keep order ), also Tomjohn ( rightful heir to the throne of Lancre, rescued from his father's killer by loyal servants, entrusted to the local witches and given to travelling actors to raise ; Tomjohn eventually returns to the kingdom, but does not wish to rule it, preferring to remain an actor ) and Keith ( The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents-ironically, Malicia, obsessed with fairytales, is certain that this makes him likely to be a prince, but Keith explains that it is common in the city to abandon babies outside the Guilds where they are likely to receive care and training in a trade ).

Educated in a local missionary school, he left in 1926 to find work.

Educated at a local Poor law school, Crooks worked initially as a grocer's errand boy, then a blacksmith's labourer and then as an apprentice cooper.

Educated at Taverham high school, as a teenager she was spotted recording Stevie Wonder-influenced demos at The Kitchen in Norwich with her father ( himself an experienced musician and local restaurateur ) on piano.

Educated at the local village school, and later at Belle Vue Grammar School in Bradford, he went on to study history at Downing College, Cambridge.

Educated at local primary schools and at Kerema High and Sogeri National High, he went on to study at the University of Papua New Guinea, where he obtained a Bachelor of Economics in 1970, and as an exchange student at Flinders University in South Australia.

Educated speakers who would use-ito /-ita or no diminutive at all in more formal speech may use local forms when they want a friendlier or more colourful way of expressing themselves, sometimes borrowing another region's diminutive.

Educated by his family to be a member of the local Bar, he was appointed Secretary of the Finance Council and, then, in 1778, of the Chancery of “ Monsieur ”, namely the elder brother of the king of France.

Educated first at home, then spending four years of secondary school in Bienne, he completed his elementary studies in Lausanne.

Educated at Narkover, a school specializing in card-playing, horse-racing and bribery.

Educated first by the celebrated school of St. Maarten in Groningen, he matriculated at the universities of Erfurt ( BA in 1458 ) and Louvain ( MA in 1465 ), where he won renown for the purity of his Latin and his skill in disputation.

Educated first at a Brighton preparatory school and then, from the age of thirteen, as a dayboy at the prestigious Tonbridge School, his academic abilities were noted from an early age.

Educated at a Jesuit school, he was intensely pious — before marrying, he completed the whole of Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises to discover whether he should in fact devote himself to a single life.

Educated at Wath-upon-Dearne Grammar School, a state grammar school, then the University of Oxford ( graduating with First Class Honours in Philosophy, Politics and Economics ) and INSEAD, Hague was first elected to the House of Commons in a by-election in 1989.

Educated at the ducal school ( Fürstenschule ) at Grimma, he was sent to study theology at the University of Leipzig.

Educated at West Nottingham Academy, he spent several years in the work force, first as a store clerk, then as a public school teacher.

Educated by the Jesuits at Clongowes Wood College, he was primarily interested in poetry and literature, played the lead in school theatricals and was regarded as the best speaker in the school's debating society.

Educated at the Berklee College of Music, Scofield eventually left school to record with Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan.

Educated at first by his mother, George Grote was sent to Sevenoaks grammar school ( 1800 – 1804 ) and afterwards to Charterhouse School ( 1804 – 1810 ), where he studied under Dr Raine in company with Connop Thirlwall, George and Horace Waddington and Henry Havelock.

Educated at Eton College ( 1725 – 32 ) as Viscount Tunbridge, Rochford ’ s school friends included three future secretaries of state, Conway, Halifax and Sandwich.

Educated at St Mary's church school, Merton, Surrey, Hobbs joined the volunteer artillery in 1883.

Educated at Lenzie Academy, he left the school at the age of 15 " under a bit of a cloud " without any qualifications or school prizes .< ref >

Educated at St. Mary's ( now Hill House School, Doncaster ), Ackworth School ( an independent boarding school ) and Danum Grammar School for Girls ( now called Danum Academy ) on Danum Road and then reading for a BA in History at the University of Hull in 1979, Winterton first worked as John Prescott's Constituency Personal Assistant from 1980 until 1986, and then Parliamentary Officers, first for Southwark Council for two years until 1988 and then for a further two for the Royal College of Nursing until 1990.

Educated, against his own wishes, at Selwyn House, Broadstairs, and then Eton, Chichester-Clark left school and entered adulthood in the midst of the Second World War.

Educated people from all parts of France were to be selected to attend the school an to subsequently return to found an école normale in their department for the education of primary schools teachers.

Educated at a mission school, he later set up a flour mill in Warea.

Educated in the state of Qi, Xunzi was associated with the Confucian school, but his philosophy has a pragmatic flavour compared to Confucian optimism.

Educated at the French and Papal courts, he inherited the Marquisate from his father in 1519, initially under the regency of his mother and his uncles Sigismondo and Giovanni Gonzaga.

Educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, Montagu spent some time in travelling, initially going on the Grand Tour round Continental Europe before visiting the more unusual destinations of Greece, Turkey and Egypt which were then part of the Ottoman Empire.

Educated initially at Khalsa High School and Sri Ganganagar Government College, Singh obtained an arts degree from DAV College at Jalandhar and then a post-graduate degree in history from Kurukshetra University in Haryana.

Educated initially as an airplane engineer, he studied aerospace engineering at Bundeswehr University Munich from 1976 to 1980.

Educated in Port Perry, MacBrien initially joined the Militia but then transferred to the North-West Mounted Police and, during the Second Boer War, to the South African Constabulary.

Educated initially at Mrs McKnight's School in Perth ; later he travelled to England, where he continued his studies at the Preparatory School at Exmouth, then at Elstree and finally at Rugby from 1868 to 1872.

Educated at Aldenham School in Hertfordshire Richard Vincent joined the Royal Artillery in 1951, initially as a National Service Officer.

Educated initially at King's College School and then King's College London, in 1863 Lyall went on to study Greats at Balliol College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1867 with a BA degree.

Educated at Columbia University, Bessie became initially known for his translations of avant-garde French literature,

Educated at Eton, he travelled abroad for some time and in 1636 became secretary to the lord high treasurer, William Juxon ; later he was a member of the Long Parliament, being one of those who voted against the attainder of Strafford and who followed Charles I to Oxford.

Educated at Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs, Colorado, he followed in his father's footsteps and founded the motion picture production companies The Samuel Goldwyn Company and Samuel Goldwyn Films.

Educated in Saxe-Altenburg, Germany, Harrison returned to Chicago to help his brother run the Chicago Times, which their father bought in 1891.

Educated at the original Trinity College School in Weston Ontario, as a teenager William Osler's aim was to follow his father into the Anglican ministry and to that end he entered Trinity College, Toronto ( now a constituent college of the University of Toronto ) in the autumn of 1867.

Educated first at the French College in Berlin, then at Neuchâtel, where his father had returned, Du Bois-Reymond entered in 1836 the University of Berlin.

Educated chiefly at home by his father, Campbell was already a good Latin scholar when he went to the University of Glasgow in 1811.

Educated in Toronto public schools, his first job was at the age of 14 as an assistant to his carpenter father.

Educated at Leeds Grammar School, of which his father, afterwards Dean of Carlisle, was headmaster, he was early attracted to the study of history, and obtained a scholarship at St John's College, Oxford.

Educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, Price inherited the family estate of Foxley ( in Yazor ) when he came of age in 1768, a few years after the death of his father in 1761 and of his grandfather ( Uvedale Tomkins Price ) in 1764.

Educated first at Westminster School, Doll originally then intended ( against the wishes of his parents that he become a doctor like his father ) to study mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Educated at home by his father except for a few months at Braintree, he entered Harvard in 1796.

Educated at the Benedictine Ealing Priory School, Caudwell's formal education ended at the age of 15 when his father, Stanhope Sprigg, lost his job as literary editor of the Daily Express.

Educated by his father, in 1825 he was in the public service, and when barely 19 years of age was appointed clerk of the Clergy and School Lands Corporation.

Educated at Stowe School and St John's College, Cambridge, Bernstein joined the Granada Group, the leisure and television company founded by his uncle Sidney and his father Cecil Bernstein.

Sayer was born in Cromer, Norfolk, and Educated at Great Yarmouth Grammar School ( where his father taught Maths and Art ) and later at the then Loughborough College.

Educated privately, he met through his father ( a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Linnean Society, and at one time a member of Parliament ) many of the eminent men of his time.

Educated at Athens, he added to the Chaldee astrology of his father Greek ideas concerning the soul, the birth and destruction of bodies and a sort of metempsychosis.

Educated at Jesus College, Oxford, Williams-Wynn succeeded to the baronetcy and his father's estates on the death of his father in 1740 and also inherited Wynnstay near Ruabon and the other estates of the Wynn baronets of Gwydir which had been left to his mother on the death of Sir John Wynn in 1719.

Educated by her father, Luisa learned how to read and write, and developed a love for her country.