Editing Bernie Ecclestone (section)

== Early life ==
Ecclestone was born on 28 October 1930 in [[St Peter South Elmham]],<ref name="Bower" /> a hamlet {{convert|3|mi}} south of [[Bungay]], [[Suffolk]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Cary |first=Tom |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/8090578/Bernie-Ecclestone-at-80-timeline.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/8090578/Bernie-Ecclestone-at-80-timeline.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Bernie Ecclestone at 80: timeline |work=The Daily Telegraph |date= 28 October 2010|access-date=8 November 2011 |location=London}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="edp">[http://www.edp24.co.uk/lifestyle/poor_suffolk_boy_to_formula_one_billionaire_1_818525 Poor Suffolk boy to Formula One billionaire] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110213407/http://www.edp24.co.uk/lifestyle/poor_suffolk_boy_to_formula_one_billionaire_1_818525 |date=10 November 2013 }}, ''Eastern Daily Press'', 3 March 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2011.</ref> He was the son of Sidney Ecclestone, a fisherman, whose family was originally from [[Kent]], and his wife Bertha Sophia (née Westley).<ref name="Bower" /> Ecclestone attended primary school in [[Wissett]] in [[Suffolk]] before the family moved to Danson Road,<ref>{{cite web|title=Surnames beginning with E|url=http://www.bexley.gov.uk/article/3345/Surnames-beginning-with-E|website=bexley.gov.uk|access-date=9 December 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160608135843/http://www.bexley.gov.uk/article/3345/Surnames-beginning-with-E|archive-date=8 June 2016}}</ref> [[Bexleyheath]], southeast London, in 1938.<ref name="edp" /> He was not evacuated to the countryside during the [[World War II|Second World War]] and remained with his family.<ref name="Bower" />

Ecclestone left [[Dartford]] West Central Secondary School<ref name="Bower">{{cite book|last=Bower|first=Tom|url=https://archive.org/details/noangelsecretlif0000bowe/page/15|title=No Angel: The Secret Life of Bernie Ecclestone|publisher=Faber and Faber|year=2011|isbn=9780571269365|pages=11–15}}</ref> at the age of 16 to work as an assistant in the chemical laboratory at the local [[gasworks]]<ref name="grandprix">[http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/cref-eccber.html Bernie Ecclestone Biography at Grand Prix.com.]. Retrieved 10 February 2014</ref> testing gas purity. He also studied chemistry at [[Greenwich University|Woolwich Polytechnic]]<ref name="Bower" /> and pursued his hobby of motorcycles.