Editing Peter Finch (section)

==Early life==
===Family===
Finch was born as Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch<ref>{{Cite web |title=Index entry |url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=hbVTz2%2BT91XDvmxrALjuVQ&scan=1 |access-date=6 May 2011 |work=FreeBMD |publisher=ONS}}</ref> in London to Alicia Gladys Fisher. At the time, Alicia was married to [[George Finch (chemist)|George Finch]].<ref name="ADB2" /><ref name="ReferenceA2">Faulkner (1979)</ref><ref name="AMGNYT2">{{Cite web |date=2011 |title=Peter Finch |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/23460/Peter-Finch/biography |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520083108/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/23460/Peter-Finch/biography |archive-date=20 May 2011 |access-date=27 July 2008 |work=[[The New York Times]] |department=Movies & TV Dept.}}</ref>

George Finch was born to British parents in [[New South Wales]], Australia, but was educated in Paris and Zürich. He was a research chemist when he moved to Britain in 1912 and later served during the First World War with the Royal Army [[wiktionary:ordnance|Ordnance]] Depot and the [[Royal Field Artillery]].<ref>{{cite news |date=24 November 1970 |title=Obituary – George Ingle Finch |page=14 |work=The Times}}</ref> In 1915, at [[Portsmouth]], [[Hampshire]], George married Alicia Fisher, the daughter of a [[Kent]] barrister.<ref name="ReferenceA2" /> However, Peter only learned in his mid-40s that Wentworth Edward Dallas "Jock" Campbell, an [[British Indian Army|Indian Army]] officer, not George Finch, was his biological father. George Finch divorced his wife in 1920 on the grounds of her adultery with Campbell.<ref name="ADB2" /> Alicia Finch married Jock Campbell in 1922.<ref name="ReferenceA2" />

===Early childhood===
George gained custody of Peter, who was taken from his biological mother and raised by his adoptive paternal grandmother, Laura Finch (formerly Black), in [[Vaucresson]], France. In 1925 Laura took Peter with her to [[Adyar, Chennai|Adyar]], a theosophical community near [[Madras]], India, for a number of months, and the young boy lived for a time in a [[Buddhist]] monastery.<ref>{{cite news |date=27 February 1937 |title=Radio Actor Might Have Become Monk |page=36 |work=The Australian Women's Weekly |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52262928 |access-date=17 December 2011}}</ref> Perhaps as a result of his childhood contact with Buddhism, Finch always claimed to be a Buddhist. He is reported to have said: "I think a man dying on a cross is a ghastly symbol for a religion. And I think a man sitting under a [[Bodhi Tree|bo tree]] and becoming enlightened is a beautiful one."<ref>Paul Croucher, ''Buddhism in Australia: 1848–1988'', New South Wales University Press, 1989, pp. 24–25</ref>

In 1926 he was sent to Australia to live with his great-uncle Edward Herbert Finch at [[Greenwich, New South Wales|Greenwich Point]] in Sydney. For three years he attended the local school, then [[North Sydney Technical High School|North Sydney Intermediate High School]], until 1929.<ref name=filmref>{{Cite web |title=Peter Finch – Actors and Actresses – Films as Actor:, Film as Director:, Publications |url=http://www.filmreference.com/Actors-and-Actresses-El-Ga/Finch-Peter.html |website=www.filmreference.com}}</ref> [[RAF]] pilot and author [[Paul Brickhill]] was a school friend.