Editing Lenny Henry (section)

==Early life==
Lenworth George Henry was born at [[Burton Road Hospital]]<ref name="lata">{{Cite episode |title=Series 4, Episode 5 |series=[[Live at the Apollo (TV series)|Live at the Apollo]] |network=[[BBC One]] |date=9 January 2009}}</ref> in [[Dudley]]<!--West Midlands county did not exist until 1974. Worcestershire is correct-->, on 29 August 1958, and named after the doctor who delivered him<ref>{{Cite web |title=Grounded with Louis Theroux |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/Y0Vm65Kfjqh9XCPTSjkQNN/nine-things-we-learned-when-sir-lenny-henry-spoke-to-louis-theroux |access-date=18 March 2021 |website=[[BBC Radio 4]]}}</ref> to Winston Jervis Henry (1910–1978) and Winifred Louise Henry (1922–1998), who had [[British Jamaicans|emigrated to Britain from Jamaica]]. The fifth of seven children, Henry was the first child of the family to be born in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Duguid |first=Mark |title=Henry, Lenny (1958– ) |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/468336/ |access-date=7 February 2014 |website=[[Screenonline]] |publisher=[[British Film Institute]]}}</ref> When Henry was 10 years old, he began spending time with the man who was later revealed to be his biological father, Albert Augustus "Bertie" Green (1927–2004), another Jamaican immigrant with whom his mother had a brief relationship when she first arrived in England from their native Jamaica.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lanre Bakare |date=21 October 2019 |title=Lenny Henry: 'I wish somebody had taught me how to defend myself' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/oct/21/lenny-henry-wish-somebody-taught-me-to-defend-myself |access-date=23 July 2020 |work=The Guardian |location=London}}</ref>

Henry attended [[Defunct schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley#St John's Primary School|St John's Primary School]] and later [[The Blue Coat School, Dudley|The Blue Coat School]] in Dudley, before completing his schooling at [[Preston's College|W.R. Tuson College]] in [[Preston, Lancashire]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Owen Gibson |date=11 February 2008 |title=Where are all the black new faces? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/feb/11/television.race |access-date=9 January 2009 |work=The Guardian |location=London}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=27 January 2008 |title=Lenny Henry's Preston memories |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/archive/2007/1/25/964236.html/ |access-date=11 October 2008 |website=This is Lancashire |publisher=Newsquest Media Group |quote=Henry left school without any qualifications but decided to retake his "O" levels at Preston College – then called W.R. Tuson College – while appearing in a summer season in Blackpool with [[Cannon and Ball]] in the early 1980s. [...] "I thought 'I'm going to do my [[GCE Ordinary Level|O levels]]', which is a bizarre thing for a rock 'n' roll 21-year-old comedian to do".}}</ref>