Editing Clive Anderson (section)

== Early life ==
Anderson's mother was English and his parents met while serving in the RAF.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Clive Anderson: I identify with Scottishness but I don't think audiences see me as Scottish |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/arts_ents/17686137.clive-anderson-identify-scottishness-dont-think-audiences-see-scottish/|access-date=2022-11-05|website=HeraldScotland|date=8 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref> He was educated at Stanburn Primary School and [[Harrow High School|Harrow County School for Boys]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jeffreymaynard.com/Harrow_County/Gaytonians.htm|title=Some Gaytonians|access-date=29 July 2007|last=Maynard|first=Jeff |publisher=Virtual Gaytonian}}</ref> then a grammar school which closed in 1975.<ref name=":0"/><ref>{{Citation|title=Harrow County Grammar School |date=2022-04-10|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harrow_County_Grammar_School&oldid=1081899241|work=Wikipedia|language=en|access-date=2022-11-05}}</ref> His group of contemporaries included [[Geoffrey Perkins]] and [[Michael Portillo]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Helen |date=2024-04-01 |title=Clive Anderson: 'I studied with Blair. I thought he'd be a parish councillor' |url=https://inews.co.uk/culture/comedy/clive-anderson-studied-blair-parish-councillor-2981622 |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=inews.co.uk |language=en}}</ref> His [[Scottish people|Scottish]] father originally from Glasgow was promoted to manager<ref name=":0"/> of the [[Bradford & Bingley]] Building Society, Wembley branch.<ref>''What Became of the Bank Manager?'', BBC Radio 4, 22 November 2009</ref> Anderson attended [[Selwyn College, Cambridge]], where, from 1974 to 1975, he was President of the Cambridge [[Footlights]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.footlights.org/alumni?limitstart=0|title=Footlights: Alumni|access-date=13 May 2014 |publisher=Cambridge Footlights|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514023501/http://www.footlights.org/alumni?limitstart=0|archive-date=14 May 2014}}</ref> He was [[Admission to practice law|called to the bar]] at the [[Middle Temple]] in 1976 and became a practising [[barrister]], specialising in [[criminal law]]. While still practising law, he continued performing, including taking a show to the [[Edinburgh Fringe]] in 1981 with [[Griff Rhys Jones]].<ref name=WOS170811>
{{cite web|url=http://www.whatsonstage.com/edinburgh-theatre/news/clive-anderson-whose-line-is-it-anyway-festival-fringe_44276.html|publisher=What's On Stage|title=Clive Anderson: how much has actually changed in my 40 years at the Fringe? |last=Anderson|first=Clive|author-link=Clive Anderson|date=11 August 2017 |access-date=13 October 2017}}
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