Editing Ronald Colman (section)

==Early years==
Ronald Charles Colman was born in [[Richmond, London|Richmond]], [[Surrey]], England, the third son (his eldest brother died in infancy in 1882)<ref name="BioBib"/> and fifth child of Charles Colman, a silk merchant and mantle manufacturer, and his wife Marjory Read Fraser.<ref name="oxforddnb.com">{{Cite ODNB|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/37304|title=Colman, Ronald Charles (1891–1958), actor|author=Morley, Sheridan|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/37304}}</ref><ref name="BioBib">Frank, Sam (1997). ''Ronald Colman: A Bio-Bibliography''. [[Greenwood Press]]. p. 1; {{ISBN|0-313-26433-3}}</ref> His surviving siblings were Gladys, Edith, Eric and Freda.<ref>Colman, Juliet Benita (1975). ''Ronald Colman: A Very Private Person''. W.H Allen. p. 2; {{ISBN|0-491-01785-5}}</ref> He was a cousin of the Labour politician [[Grace Colman]].

He attended <span class="plainlinks">[https://archive.org/details/sim_country-life_1904-06-25_15_supplement/page/n33/mode/2up?q=%22hadleigh+house+school%22&view=theater Hadleigh House School]</span> in [[Littlehampton]]<ref>He is recorded here in 1901, see UK 1901 census via [https://stevemorse.org SteveMorse.org].</ref> where he discovered that he enjoyed acting, despite his shyness.<ref name="Shelley Winters 2007">"Shelley Winters." Britannica Book of the Year, 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica Online Academic Edition. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2013. Web. 16 September 2013</ref> Later he was educated at Rolandseck School in Ealing under the German-born headmaster Ernst Felix Marx (1858–1942).<ref>“College of Preceptors. Local Examinations“, ''Uxbridge and W. Drayton Gazette'', 22 August 1903, p. 7.</ref> He intended to study [[engineering]] at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]], but his father's sudden death from [[pneumonia]] in 1907 made it financially impossible.<ref>Smith, R. Dixon (1991). ''Ronald Colman, Gentleman of the Cinema''. [[McFarland & Company]]. pp. 2–3; {{ISBN|0-7864-1212-7}}</ref><ref name="Shelley Winters 2007"/>