Editing Dudley Moore (section)

==Early life==
Moore was born at the original [[Charing Cross Hospital]] in [[central London]], the son of Ada Francis (née Hughes), a secretary, and John Moore, a railway electrician from [[Glasgow]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1389041/Dudley-Moore.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1389041/Dudley-Moore.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Obituaries: Dudley Moore |work=The Daily Telegraph  |date=22 March 2002 |access-date=23 April 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
He had an older sister, Barbara.<ref>{{cite web|last=Low|first=Valentine|date=12 April 2012|title=Dudley receives his CBE|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/dudley-receives-his-cbe-6335675.html|access-date=12 February 2022|website=www.standard.co.uk}}</ref> Moore was brought up on the [[Becontree]] estate in [[Dagenham]], [[Essex]]. He was short at {{convert|5|ft|2|in|m|abbr=on}} and had [[club feet]] that required extensive hospital treatment. This made him the butt of jokes from other children. His right foot responded well to corrective treatment by the time he was six, but his left foot was permanently twisted and his left leg below the knee was withered. He remained self-conscious about this throughout his life.

Moore became a chorister at the age of six. When he was 11 years old, he earned a scholarship to the [[Guildhall School of Music]], where he took up harpsichord, organ, violin, musical theory and composition.<ref name=official>{{cite web |url=http://dudleymoore.com/about/bio.htm |title=The Official Site of Dudley Moore: Biography |publisher=The Estate of Dudley Moore - DudleyMoore.com |access-date=24 April 2016 |archive-date=15 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140915154357/http://dudleymoore.com/about/bio.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> He rapidly developed into a highly talented pianist and organist and was playing the organ at local church weddings by the age of 14. He attended [[Dagenham County High School]], where he received dedicated musical tuition from Peter Cork (1926–2012), who helped him towards his Oxford music scholarship. ([[Norma Winstone]] was another student of Cork's at Dagenham).<ref>Plowright, Piers. [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/peter-cork-music-teacher-dudley-moore-and-composer-television-and-radio-8231520.html Peter Cork obituary] in ''The Independent'', 30 October 2012</ref> Cork was also a composer. Moore kept in touch until the mid-1990s and his letters to Cork were published in 2006.<ref name =cork>Cork, Peter (ed.). ''Letter From Dudley'' (2006)</ref>

In 1955 Moore won an [[organ scholar]]ship to [[Magdalen College, Oxford]], where he was tutored by the composer [[Bernard Rose (musician)|Bernard Rose]] and from where he graduated in 1958.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jazzprofessional.com/interviews/DudleyMoore.htm|title=Dudley Moore|website=www.jazzprofessional.com}}</ref><ref name=official/><ref name="rose">{{cite news | title=Bernard Rose (Obituary) | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-bernard-rose-1312755.html |first=Roderic|last=Dunnett| newspaper=The Independent | date=3 December 1996 | access-date=28 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822093958/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-bernard-rose-1312755.html |archive-date=22 August 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> While studying music and composition there, he also performed with [[Alan Bennett]] in [[The Oxford Revue]]. During his university years, Moore developed a love of [[jazz]] music and became an accomplished jazz pianist and composer. He began working with musicians such as [[John Dankworth]] and [[Cleo Laine]]. In 1960, Moore left Dankworth's band to work on ''Beyond the Fringe''.