Editing Stanley Unwin (comedian) (section)

==Early life==
Unwin's parents, Ivan Oswald Unwin (1880–1914) and his wife Jessie Elizabeth ({{née}} Brand; 1883–1968) emigrated from England to the [[Union of South Africa]] in the early 1900s. Their son was born in [[Pretoria]] in 1911. Following his father's death in 1914, due to the family's poverty Unwin's mother arranged for the family to return to England.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/stanley-unwin-9150769.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/stanley-unwin-9150769.html |archive-date=24 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Stanley Unwin|website=[[Independent.co.uk]]|date=17 January 2002}}</ref> She worked as a cook at [[Bow Road]] police station.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stanleyunwin.com/unwinese.htm|title = The World of Stanley Unwin}}</ref> By 1919, Unwin had been sent to the [[National Children's Home]] in [[Congleton]], [[Cheshire]]. In the late 1920s, he studied radio, television and languages at [[University of Westminster|Regent Street Polytechnic]] in [[London]].<ref>{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-76678|isbn = 978-0-19-861412-8|doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/76678|year = 2006|last1 = Pointon|first1 = Michael|title = Unwin, Stanley (1911–2002), entertainer}}</ref>

In 1937, he married Frances, with whom he had two daughters and a son. Unwin later stated that Unwinese had its roots in enlivening the bedtime stories that he used to tell his children. In 1940, he was given a job in transmitter maintenance for the [[BBC]], and was assigned to the [[Borough Hill]] transmitting station in [[Daventry]]. Unwin, Frances and their nine-month-old daughter, Marion, moved to [[Long Buckby]] in [[Northamptonshire]], where Unwin would reside for the rest of his life.