Editing Colin Baker (section)

==Early life==
Colin Charles Baker was born on 8 June 1943 in [[Waterloo, London]]. He moved north to [[Rochdale]] with his family when he was 3 years old. Baker passed the [[Eleven-plus]] and was admitted at [[St Bede's College, Manchester]], where he passed [[GCE Advanced Level|A' Levels]] in French, Greek and Latin.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Karen Louise|first=Hollis|title=Un-Conventional - 13 Years of Meeting the Stars of Doctor Who|year=2011|isbn=9781447806806|pages=19}}</ref>    Particularly strong in [[Ancient language|ancient languages]], Baker achieved 2 A grades<ref>{{Cite web|date=1 August 2006|title=The Best Days of your Life|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/default_content/12425841.best-days-life-colin-baker-actor/|url-status=live|website=The Herald|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516131443/https://www.heraldscotland.com/default_content/12425841.best-days-life-colin-baker-actor/ |archive-date=16 May 2021 }}</ref> in Greek and Latin and his eyes were set on studying at [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]].  However, his father had other plans:<blockquote>"When I was 18, I told my father I wanted to go to Oxford.  It was immaterial what I studied there.  His income was such that, without his say-so, I couldn't go anywhere, because I couldn't get a grant and he thought University was a waste of time so at 18 I was shoved into a solicitor's office. I did what I was told." <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Everest |first=Hazel |date=24 Nov 1991 |title=Who is Doctor Who |journal=KREDStudent |volume=190 |pages=6}}</ref></blockquote>Having secured an [[Articled clerk|articled clerkship]] with a solicitor in the [[North West England|North West of England]] via his father's connection, Baker studied to qualify as a solicitor, but at the end of his 5 year contract had a change of mind.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1393397/index.html|title=Colin Baker biography|website=BFI Screenonline|access-date=5 May 2017}}</ref>  At the age of 23, Baker jettisoned the law, auditioned at a number of drama schools, finally selecting the [[London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art]] (LAMDA), graduating in 1969.<ref>{{cite web |quote=Having recently been digging out information about my ancestors, I would love to go back {{sic|to to}} the end of the 18th Century and see just what it was like being a labourer on the land as my great, great great grandfather Thomas Baker was in Lound in Suffolk in the 1790s and it would enable me to go back a bit further too and find out about Thomas' parents and where they came from. I would like too to find out about my mother's Irish ancestry, which is quite difficult to uncover.|title=Ask Colin |work=Colin Baker Online|url=http://colinbaker.webs.com/askcolin.htm|access-date=28 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100604215024/http://colinbaker.webs.com/askcolin.htm|archive-date=4 June 2010}}</ref>