Editing Maggie Smith (section)

==Early life and education==
Margaret Natalie Smith was born on 28 December 1934 in [[Ilford]], Essex<!--Not part of Greater London until 1965-->.<ref name="BBCobit">{{cite web|title=Dame Maggie Smith obituary: A formidable star on stage and screen|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crggzy42v30o|website=[[BBC News]]|date=27 September 2024|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240927165741/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crggzy42v30o|archive-date=27 September 2024|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="FullNameBiography">{{cite web |title=Maggie Smith |url=https://www.biography.com/actor/maggie-smith |website=[[Biography.com]] |date=29 June 2020 |quote=Maggie Smith was born Margaret Natalie Smith in Ilford, Greater London, England}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.debretts.com/people/honours/orders-and-decorations-conferred-crown|publisher=Debrett's|title=Orders and decorations conferred by the crown|access-date=4 January 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150129081605/http://www.debretts.com/people/honours/orders-and-decorations-conferred-crown|archive-date=29 January 2015}}</ref><ref name="FullNameBritannica">{{cite web |title=Maggie Smith {{!}} British actress |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maggie-Smith |website=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |date=15 July 2023 |quote=Maggie Smith, in full Dame Margaret Natalie Smith}}</ref> Her mother, Margaret Hutton (née Little), was a Scottish secretary from [[Glasgow]], and her father, Nathaniel Smith, was a public-health [[pathologist]] from [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], who worked at the [[University of Oxford]].<ref name="glasgow">{{cite news |last=Mackenzie |first=Suzie |title=You have to laugh |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=UK |date=20 November 2004 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/weekend/story/0,3605,1354891,00.html |access-date=10 December 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800019451/bio |title=Maggie Smith profile |work=Yahoo! Movies |access-date=21 April 2014}}</ref><ref name="tiscali">{{cite web|url=http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/biographies/maggie_smith_biog.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011105081218/http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/biographies/maggie_smith_biog.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 November 2001 |title=Maggie Smith biography |work=tiscali.co.uk |access-date=21 April 2014 }}</ref> The family moved to [[Oxford]] when Smith was four years old. She had older twin brothers, Alistair and Ian. The latter went to architecture school. Smith was educated at [[Oxford High School (Oxford)|Oxford High School]] until the age of 16, when she left to study acting at the [[Oxford Playhouse]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tribute.ca/people/maggie-smith/3122|title=Maggie Smith biography and filmography|work=[[Tribute.ca]]|access-date=7 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130710172828/http://www.tribute.ca/people/maggie-smith/3122/|archive-date=10 July 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>