Editing Tim Brooke-Taylor (section)

==Early life and education==
Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor was born on 17 July 1940 in [[Buxton]], [[Derbyshire]], son of Edward Brooke-Taylor, a solicitor and games teacher and international [[lacrosse]] player and Rachel,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/tim-brooke-taylor-death-comedian-tv-radio-goodies-radio-4-age-cause-coronavirus-a9473956.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/tim-brooke-taylor-death-comedian-tv-radio-goodies-radio-4-age-cause-coronavirus-a9473956.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Remembering Tim Brooke-Taylor, the comedy star equally at home with the witty and the zany |date=21 April 2020 |work=The Independent}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thestage.co.uk/obituaries-archive/obituaries/tim-brooke-taylor |title=The Stage - Obituaries - Tim Brooke-Taylor |access-date=22 June 2020 |archive-date=9 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809091447/https://www.thestage.co.uk/obituaries-archive/obituaries/tim-brooke-taylor |url-status=dead }}</ref> daughter of [[Francis Pawson]], a [[parson]] who played [[centre forward]] for the English football team in the 1880s.<ref>[http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/images/p4-5DGOLD_tcm9-113565.pdf The Goodie Life] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222060025/http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/images/p4-5DGOLD_tcm9-113565.pdf |date=22 February 2012 }} Retrieved 12 February 2010</ref> He was expelled from primary school at the early age of five and a half.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/what-s-on/theatre/goody-tim-brooke-taylor-heads-for-great-yorkshire-fringe-1-7380885|title=Goody! Tim Brooke-Taylor heads for Great Yorkshire Fringe|date=2015|work=Yorkshire Post|access-date=26 December 2018}}</ref> Brooke-Taylor was then schooled at Thorn Leigh Pre-Preparatory School, Holm Leigh Preparatory School (where he won a cup for his prowess as a bowler in the school [[cricket]] team) and [[Winchester College]] which he left with seven [[O-levels]] and two A-levels in English and history.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}}

After teaching for a year at [[Lockers Park School]], a preparatory school in [[Hemel Hempstead]] and a term back at Holm Leigh School as a teacher, he studied at [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]]. There he read economics and politics before changing to read law and mixed with other budding comedians, including [[John Cleese]], [[Graham Chapman]], [[Bill Oddie]], [[Graeme Garden]] and [[Jonathan Lynn]] in the [[Footlights|Cambridge University Footlights Club]] (of which Brooke-Taylor became president in 1963).<ref name="fringe">''From Fringe to Flying Circus'' – 'Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960–1980' – Roger Wilmut, Eyre Methuen Ltd, 1980.</ref><ref name="footlights">''Footlights!'' – 'A Hundred Years of Cambridge Comedy' – Robert Hewison, Methuen London Ltd, 1983.</ref>

The Footlights Club revue, ''A Clump of Plinths'', was so successful during its [[Edinburgh Festival Fringe]] run that the show was renamed as ''[[Cambridge Footlights Revue|Cambridge Circus]]'' and transferred to the [[West End of London|West End]] in London before being taken to both New Zealand and [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] in the United States in September 1964.<ref name="fringe"/><ref name="footlights"/> Brooke-Taylor was also active in the Pembroke College drama society, the [[Pembroke Players]].