David Bellamy - Early Life

Early Life

Bellamy attended Chatsworth Road Primary School Cheam, Cheam Road Junior School and Sutton County Grammar School, where he initially showed an aptitude for English Literature and History. He then found his vocation due to an inspirational science teacher, studying Zoology, Botany, Physics and Chemistry in the sixth form. After he left school he worked in a laboratory at a technical college in Ewell, before he won a place at Durham University.

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