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John Cleese: Clifton College
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Born in Somerset, England, Cleese would have had to introduce himself as John Cheese, had his father not changed his surname. An only child and a bright boy, Cleese spent five years, from 1953 to 1958, at Clifton College, then taught at his old prep school for two years while waiting to go to Cambridge University's Downing College to study Law.
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Born on October 27, 1939 to Reginald Francis Cleese and Muriel Cross at Weston-super-Mare in Somerset in England, Cleese had a knack for comedy when he was in school. He was expelled from Clifton College in Bristol for a humorous defacing of the grounds. His crime was that he had used painted footsteps to imply that the statue of Field Marshal Earl Haig installed in the college got down from his plinth and went to the toilet.
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Cleese began writing and performing in comedy revues at Clifton College in Bristol, England, and was a member of the renowned Footlights Club while a law student at the University of Cambridge. The 1963 Footlights…
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Cleese was born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England to Reginald Francis Cleese and Muriel (Cross). His family's surname was previously "Cheese", but his father, an insurance salesman, changed his surname to "Cleese" upon joining the army in 1915.[1] As a boy, Cleese was educated at Clifton College in Bristol, from which he was expelled for defacing school grounds: he used painted footsteps to suggest that the school's statue of Field Marshal Earl Haig had got down from his plinth and gone to the toilet.[2]
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