Editing W. T. Tutte (section)

==Early life and education==
Tutte was born in [[Newmarket, Suffolk|Newmarket]] in Suffolk. He was the younger son of William John Tutte (1873–1944), an estate gardener, and Annie (''née'' Newell; 1881–1956), a housekeeper. Both parents worked at Fitzroy House stables where Tutte was born.<ref name="MacTutorBiog"/> The family spent some time in Buckinghamshire, County Durham and Yorkshire before returning to Newmarket, where Tutte attended [[Cheveley]] Church of England primary school<ref>Cheveley CofE Primary School, Park Road, Cheveley, Cambridgeshire, CB8 9DF http://www.cheveley.cambs.sch.uk/</ref> in the nearby village of Cheveley.<ref name="frs"/> In 1927, when he was ten, Tutte won a [[scholarship]] to the [[Cambridgeshire High School for Boys|Cambridge and County High School for Boys]]. He took up his place there in 1928.

In 1935 he won a scholarship to study natural sciences at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], where he specialized in [[chemistry]] and graduated with first-class honours in 1938.<ref name="frs"/> He continued with [[physical chemistry]] as a graduate student, but transferred to mathematics at the end of 1940.<ref name="frs"/> As a student, he (along with three of his friends) became one of the first to solve the problem of [[squaring the square]], and the first to solve the problem without a squared subrectangle. Together the four created the [[pseudonym]] [[Blanche Descartes]], under which Tutte published occasionally for years.<ref>{{citation | last1 = Smith | first1 = Cedric A. B. | first2 = Steve | last2 = Abbott | title = The Story of Blanche Descartes | journal = The Mathematical Gazette | issn = 0025-5572 |date=March 2003 | volume = 87 | issue = 508 | pages = 23–33 | jstor = 3620560| doi = 10.1017/S0025557200172067 | s2cid = 192758206 }}</ref>