| − | Whitehead was born on 11 November 1904 in Madras (now Chennai), [[India]], where his father The Right Rev Henry Whitehead, was Bishop. His mother, Isobel Duncan, was the daughter of the Rector of Calne, Wiltshire, and had studied mathematics at [[Oxford University]], being one of the early women undergraduates there. The famous mathematician and philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead, was his uncle. | + | Whitehead was born on 11 November 1904 in Madras (now Chennai), [[India]], where his father The Right Rev Henry Whitehead, was Bishop. His mother, Isobel Duncan, the daughter of the Rector of Calne, Wiltshire, had studied mathematics at [[Oxford University]], being one of the early women undergraduates there. The famous mathematician and philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead, was his uncle. |
| − | When Henry was aged about eighteen months his parents brought him back from India and left him in the care of his grandmother in [[Oxford]], England. His parents then returned to India and Henry saw little of them until his father retired when Henry was sixteen years old. when they returned to England. | + | When Henry was aged about eighteen months his parents brought him back from India and left him in the care of his grandmother in [[Oxford]], England. His parents then returned to India and Henry saw little of them until his father retired and returned to England when Henry was sixteen. |
| | After prep school Henry went to school at [[Eton College]], where he had a wide range of interests and was known for exuberance, gaiety and athletic prowess as well as intelligence. | | After prep school Henry went to school at [[Eton College]], where he had a wide range of interests and was known for exuberance, gaiety and athletic prowess as well as intelligence. |