Editing Jon Pertwee (section)

===Early life and education===
Born in [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]], [[London]], and, having [[Huguenots|French Huguenot]] ancestry, his surname was an Anglicisation of "Perthuis", the origins of his surname being "de Perthuis de Laillevault", the family being counts descended from [[Charlemagne]].<ref>''Jon Pertwee: The Biography'', Bernard Bale, André Deutsch, 2000, p. 2</ref><ref>''An Hour with Jon Pertwee'', broadcast by BBC7 on 30 March 2009</ref> Jon was the son of screenwriter and actor [[Roland Pertwee]] and distant cousin of actor [[Bill Pertwee]].<ref name="screenonline.org.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/545943/|title=Pertwee, Jon (1919–1996)|publisher=BFI Screenonline Biography}}</ref> Pertwee's mother, Avice Scholtz, separated from his father Roland when Pertwee was young. His father remarried, and his mother found a new partner, Louis Auguste De La Garde, with whom Pertwee did not build a relationship; she died in 1951, leaving Pertwee's elder brother Michael as her executor.<ref>Interview "Mind of Evil" DVD, released 2013.</ref> Avice's sister Daphne married Captain Philip Cecil Clowes<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.william1.co.uk/e11.htm|title=Essex 11|website=William1.co.uk}}</ref> and became the mother of Pertwee's cousin, the writer [[St John Legh Clowes]] (1907–1951). Actor [[Henry Ainley]], a close friend of his father, was his godfather. Coincidentally, Ainley's son [[Anthony Ainley|Anthony]] appeared as [[The Master (Doctor Who)|the Master]] – a renegade Time Lord who was the Doctor's greatest enemy – alongside Pertwee in the ''Doctor Who'' anniversary story "[[The Five Doctors]]" (1983).<ref name=":0" />

Pertwee was educated at [[Frensham Heights School]], an independent school in [[Rowledge]], near [[Farnham]] in Surrey, at [[Sherborne School]] in Dorset, and at some other schools from which he was expelled.{{citation needed|date=April 2025}} After school, he applied to the [[Central School of Speech and Drama]], but was denied admittance because of his lisp.{{citation needed|date=March 2025}} He was admitted to the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] (RADA) but later expelled, allegedly because he wrote rude remarks on the lavatory walls and the principal considered him talentless.<ref name="smurthwaite">{{cite news |last=Smurthwaite |first=Nick |title=Obituary: Jon Pertwee |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-jon-pertwee-5615100.html |work=The Independent |date=20 May 1996 |access-date=8 March 2016}}</ref> Another account for his expulsion is that he refused to play a Greek wind in a play.<ref>{{cite news |last=Fordy |first=Tom |title=The most delightfully English Doctor of all: how Jon Pertwee brought panache to Who |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/delightfully-english-doctor-jon-pertwee-brought-panache/ |work=The Daily Telegraph|date=2 January 2020 |access-date=8 March 2025}}</ref>