Fellowes said that he thinks he "learnt from David Kingsley that you could actually make a living in the film business." įellowes was educated at several private schools in Britain including Wetherby School, St Philip's School (a Catholic boys school in South Kensington) and Ampleforth College, which his father had preferred over Eton. Sometimes "glamorous figures" would visit the Kingsleys' house. David Kingsley was head of British Lion Films, the company responsible for many Peter Sellers comedies. The friendship his family developed with another family in the village, the Kingsleys, influenced Fellowes. At the flat she'd be waiting in a snappy little cocktail dress with a delicious dinner and drink. My mother put him on a train on Monday mornings and drove up to London in the afternoon. Fellowes has described his father as one "of that last generation of men who lived in a pat of butter without knowing it. The house in Chiddingly, which had been owned by the whodunit writer Clifford Kitchin, was within easy reach of London where his father, who had been a diplomat, worked for Shell. The siblings' childhood home was at Wetherby Place, South Kensington, and afterwards at Chiddingly, East Sussex, where Fellowes lived from August 1959 until November 1988, and where his parents are buried. Peregrine's uncle was Peregrine Forbes Morant Fellowes (1883–1955), Air Commodore and DSO.įellowes has three older brothers: Nicholas Peregrine James, actor and writer David Andrew, and playwright Roderick Oliver. His great grandfather was John Wrightson, a pioneer in agricultural education and the founder of Downton Agricultural College. His father was a diplomat and Arabist who campaigned to have Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, restored to his throne during World War II.
Fellowes was born in Cairo, Egypt, the youngest of 4 boys for Peregrine Edward Launcelot Fellowes (1912–1999), and his British wife, Olwen Mary ( née Stuart-Jones).
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