Editing W. G. Grace (section)

===Education===
Grace was "notoriously unscholarly".{{sfn|Rae|1998|pp=21–22}} His first schooling was with a Miss Trotman in Downend village and then with a Mr Curtis of Winterbourne.{{sfn|Rae|1998|p=21}} He subsequently attended a [[day school]] called Ridgway House, run by a Mr Malpas, until he was fourteen. One of his schoolmasters, David Bernard, later married Grace's sister Alice.{{sfn|Rae|1998|p=21}} In 1863, Grace was taken seriously ill with [[pneumonia]] and his father removed him from Ridgway House. After this illness, Grace grew rapidly to his full height of 6&nbsp;ft 2&nbsp;in (1.88 m).{{sfn|Rae|1998|p=38}} He continued his education at home where one of his tutors was the Reverend John Dann, the Downend [[parish church]] curate; like Mr Bernard before him, Mr Dann became Grace's [[brother-in-law]], marrying Blanche Grace in 1869.{{sfn|Rae|1998|p=39}}

Grace never went to university because his father wanted him to pursue a [[physician|medical career]]. Nevertheless, Grace received approaches from both [[Oxford University Cricket Club]] and [[Cambridge University Cricket Club]]. In 1866, when he played a match at [[University of Oxford|Oxford]], one of the Oxford players, [[Edmund Carter (cricketer, born 1845)|Edmund Carter]], tried to interest him in becoming an [[undergraduate education|undergraduate]].{{sfn|Rae|1998|p=63}} Then, in 1868, Grace received overtures from [[Caius College]], [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]], which had a long medical tradition.{{sfn|Rae|1998|p=78}} Grace said he would have gone to either Oxford or Cambridge if his father had allowed it.{{sfn|Rae|1998|p=78}} Instead, he enrolled at [[Bristol Medical School]] in October 1868, when he was 20.{{sfn|Rae|1998|p=78}}

Grace's entire life, including his [[cricket]] and medical careers, is inseparable from his [[Grace family|close-knit family background]] which was strongly influenced by his father, who set great store by qualifications and determination to succeed. Henry, whose medical qualifications were Licenciate of the [[Worshipful Society of Apothecaries|Society of Apothecaries]] (LSA) in 1828 and [[Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons]] (MRCS) in 1830, passed this purposeful attitude on to each of his five sons.{{sfn|Rae|1998|p=3}} Therefore, like his father and his brothers, Grace chose a professional career in medicine—because of his cricketing commitments, however, he did not complete his qualification as a [[doctor of medicine|doctor]] until 1879, when he was 31 years old.{{sfn|Midwinter|1981|p=75}}