David Attenborough

Sir David Attenborough is a UK naturalist and broadcaster who was born in 1926, His older brother is Lord Richard Attenborough the film director and actor. He is the middle son of a family of five siblings, including two adopted daughters who were refugees from Nazi Germany. Their father was Frederick Levi Attenborough (1887–1973), a teacher who later took his BA in 1918 with a first in Medieval and Modern Languages at Emmanuel College Cambridge. While a College Junior Fellow, his research dissertation 'The Laws of the Earliest English Kings' was published in 1922 (it has recently been reprinted in 2006). Frederick went on to become Principal of Borough Road Training College, Isleworth (1924–32) and of University College, Leicester (1932–51) where David grew up on the campus. He was a keen collector of natural history specimens from his childhood.