Editing David Dimbleby (section)

==Early life and education==
Dimbleby was born in [[East Sheen]], [[Surrey]],<ref>GRO Register of Births: MAR 1938 2a 180 SURREY NE – David Dimbleby, mmn = Thomas</ref> the son of the journalist and [[Second World War]] [[war correspondent]] [[Richard Dimbleby]], by his marriage to Dilys Thomas, from Wales. He had three siblings: two brothers, [[Jonathan Dimbleby]], also a television current affairs presenter, and Nicholas (died 2024), and a sister, Sally.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=A1&xml=/portal/2007/02/03/ftnick03.xml | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070327112731/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=A1&xml=/portal/2007/02/03/ftnick03.xml | url-status=dead | archive-date=27 March 2007 | work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] | location=London | title=Family detective | first=Nick | last=Barratt | date=3 February 2007 | access-date=1 May 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Obituaries |first=Telegraph |date=2024-02-25 |title=Nicholas Dimbleby, scion of the broadcasting dynasty who made his name as a sculptor – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/02/25/nicholas-dimbleby-sculptor-motor-neurone-obituary/ |access-date=2025-02-16 |work=The Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Dimbleby |first=David |date=2022-09-24 |title=David Dimbleby: If I were a politician, I would pick daily fights with the BBC |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/biography-books/david-dimbleby-bbc-tried-push-question-time-old/ |access-date=2025-02-16 |work=The Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}}</ref> David Dimbleby was educated at two independent schools, the [[Battle Abbey School|Glengorse School]] in [[Battle, East Sussex]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Battle Abbey School|url=http://www.battleabbeyschool.com|access-date=10 February 2008}}</ref> and [[Charterhouse School|Charterhouse]] in [[Godalming]], Surrey, where he was a contemporary of the journalist [[Adam Raphael]]. The two younger Dimblebys both made their television débuts in the 1950s in the BBC's first holiday programme ''Passport'', at a time when the whole family would visit resorts in Switzerland or [[Brittany]]. A holiday programme for the home counties, called ''No Passport'', was also broadcast.

After learning French in Paris and Italian in [[Perugia]], Dimbleby read [[Philosophy, politics and economics]] at [[Christ Church, Oxford]] and graduated with a third-class degree. While at Oxford he was President of the Christ Church [[Junior Common Room]], a member of the [[Bullingdon Club]] – a socially exclusive student dining and drinking society – and also editor of the student magazine ''[[The Isis Magazine|Isis]]''.