Editing Terry Dicks (section)

==Early life and career==
Dicks was born with [[cerebral palsy]] on 17 March 1937 in [[Bristol]]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Terry Dicks obituary|language=en|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/terry-dicks-obituary-6xj3dgf7c|access-date=25 June 2020}}</ref> to Frank and Winifred Dicks. He "saw little of his father",<ref name=TelegraphObituary /> who "did not play a part in his childhood";<ref>{{Cite news |last=Langdon |first=Julia |date=2020-06-22 |title=Terry Dicks obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jun/22/terry-dicks-obituary |access-date=2024-06-07 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> his mother, a cleaner, died of arthritis.<ref name=TelegraphObituary /> Leaving school at 15, he worked at [[Imperial Brands|Imperial Tobacco]] as a clerk until 1959, then at the [[Ministry of Labour]].<ref name=TelegraphObituary /> He was educated at the [[University of Oxford]] (DipEcon) and the [[London School of Economics]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BSc]] ([[Economics|Econ]])).<ref>‘DICKS, Terence Patrick, ''Who's Who 2014'', A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014.</ref>