page_title: W. O. Bentley
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: W. O. Bentley / Early life
caption_attribution_description: Clifton College Upper School, Bristol, England. Left - the Dining Hall, centre - the Chapel. Seen from the Close.
context_page_description: Walter Owen Bentley, MBE was an English engineer who founded Bentley Motors Limited in London. He designed engines for cars and aircraft. When young he raced cars and motorcycles.
  He was known as "W. O." without any need to add the word Bentley.
context_section_description: Bentley, born in Hampstead, London, was the youngest of his parents’ nine children. His father was retired businessman Alfred Bentley, and Adelaide-born mother was Emily, née Waterhouse. As the son of a prosperous family he was privately educated at Clifton College in Bristol from 1902 until 1905, when at the age of 16 he left to start work as an apprentice engineer with the Great Northern Railway at Doncaster in Yorkshire.
caption: Clifton College
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