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Birth
Will was born on September 19, 1911, in Saint Columb Minor.
Williams Childhood Will was raised in a 14th-century house next door to a graveyard. His mother, Mildred, was an active suffragette who fought for women's right to vote. His father, Alex, worked as a schoolmaster.
Educated at Marlborough Grammar School, where his father taught, and at Brasenose College, Oxford, Golding graduated in 1935. https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Golding -
School and work life
After working in a settlement house and in small theatre companies, he became a schoolmaster at Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury in April 1940.