Editing Ian Dury (section)

==Early life and education==
Ian Dury was born at 43 Weald Rise in [[Harrow, London|Harrow]], at that time in [[Middlesex]].<ref name="odnb" /> His early years were spent in [[Harrow Weald]] (although it is often misreported that he was born in [[Upminster]], [[Essex]], an impression he often encouraged) and in [[Mevagissey]], [[Cornwall]], during the [[Blitzkrieg|Blitz]].<ref>{{cite book | first= Richard | last= Balls | year= 2000 | title= Sex & Drugs & Rock'N'Roll: The Life of Ian Dury | edition= 1st | publisher=Omnibus Press | location= London | pages= 14–16 | isbn= 0-7119-8644-4 }}</ref> His father, William George Dury (born 23 September 1905 in [[Southborough, Kent|Southborough]], Kent, died 25 February 1968 in Victoria, London), was a former boxer, coach and bus driver, and [[chauffeur]] for [[Rolls-Royce Limited|Rolls-Royce]]. His mother, Margaret "Peggy" Cuthbertson Walker (born 17 April 1910, [[Rochdale]], Lancashire, died 20 December 1994 in [[Hampstead]], London),<ref name=odnb>{{Cite ODNB|first=Richard |last=Balls |url= https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-73862|title=Dury, Ian Robins (1942–2000), popular singer, songwriter, and actor |chapter=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |year=2004 |pages=ref:odnb/73862 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/73862 |access-date=12 June 2018 |archive-date=12 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612144132/http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/73862 |url-status=live |quote=Published in print: 23 September 2004; Published online: 23 September 2004; This version: 01 September 2017}}</ref> was a [[health visitor]],<ref name=bio>{{cite web | title=Biography | website=Ian Dury | url=https://iandury.co.uk/biography/ | access-date=28 April 2023}}</ref> a doctor's daughter and the granddaughter of an East [[County Donegal|Donegal]] [[Ulster Protestants|Ulster Protestant]] landowner.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Balls |first=Richard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pywgfZeqc3QC |title=Ian Dury: Sex & Drugs & Rock 'N' Roll |date=2011-09-23 |publisher=Omnibus Press |isbn=978-0-85712-698-6 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Ian Dury was a one of a kind talent |newspaper=[[Irish Examiner]] |date=12 May 2017 |url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-20449874.html |first=Jonathan deBurca |last=Butler |access-date=3 October 2024}}</ref> Bill and Peggy married in 1939 and set up home in [[Belsize Park]], London.<ref name=bio/>

Bill Dury was absent for work for long periods, so Peggy often took Ian to stay with her parents in Mevagissey. After the [[Second World War]], the family moved briefly to Switzerland, where Ian's father was chauffeuring for a millionaire and the [[Western European Union]]. In 1946, Peggy brought Ian back to England and they relocated to [[Cranham]],<ref name="auto">Balls, Richard (2000), pp. 16–24</ref> near Upminster in Essex, to live with Peggy's sisters. Although he saw his father on visits, they were never to live together again.<ref name="auto"/>
At age seven, Dury contracted [[polio]], most likely, he believed, at Westcliff Swimming Pool in [[Southend-on-Sea]] during the [[History of poliomyelitis#Epidemics|1949 polio epidemic]]. After six weeks of isolation in the [[Royal Cornwall Infirmary]], [[Truro]], Ian was moved by ambulance back to Essex, to [[Black Notley]] Hospital in [[Braintree, Essex|Braintree]], where he spent eighteen months regaining his strength and mobility. Polio caused paralysis on the left-hand side of his body which led to a permanent disability.

Ian attended [[Chailey Heritage School|Chailey Heritage Craft School]], East Sussex, from 1951 till 1954. Chailey was a hospital school for disabled children that had an ethos of toughening up its students, often by leaving the less physically able to find their own way up off the floor. Arguably, this harsh approach contributed to the tough and determined person Dury became.<ref>Balls, Richard (2000) pp. 30–35</ref> Chailey taught trades such as [[cobbling]] and printing, but Dury's mother wanted him to focus on academic studies, so Aunt Moll (Mary Walker), a Buckinghamshire Education Officer, arranged for him to attend the [[Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe]]. Ian found this school a challenge and recounted being punished for misdemeanours by being forced by prefects to learn long tracts of poetry until a housemaster found him sobbing and put a stop to it:
{{blockquote|I had to go into a box room where the suitcases were stored and learn 80 lines of ''[[To Autumn|Ode to Autumn]]'' by yer man [[John Keats|Keats]]. If I got a word wrong I had to go back, they added that to the end of the sentence and after five nights of this my head had definitely gone.<ref name=DesertIslandDisks>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0093n4m |title=Desert Island Discs: Ian Dury |type=radio broadcast|date=31 March 1996|publisher=BBC Radio 4 |access-date=12 June 2018}}</ref>}} He left school at 16, having achieved [[General Certificate of Education|GCE 'O' levels]] in English Language, English Literature and Art to study art and design at [[Walthamstow College of Art]],<ref>Balls, Richard (2000), p. 56</ref> where he met lifelong friend, pop artist and teacher [[Peter Blake (artist)|Peter Blake]].<ref name="ica" /> In 1963 Ian began an MA in painting  at the [[Royal College of Art]], graduating in 1966.