Education and Early Life
Douglas was born in Plymouth on 6 February 1917, but was adopted and baptised nearly a year later, on 9 January 1918, as Douglas Wellesley Morrell at Emmanuel, Compton Gifford, Plymouth, Devon.
His father, Arthur Wellesley Morrell, was a paymaster for the Royal Navy at the Plymouth Dockyard.
Douglas was educated at Dauntsey's School in Wiltshire, and later at Faraday House in London, where he earned a bachelor of science (engineering) with honours, as well as a Gold Medal.
Both sons from his first marriage would later attend Dauntsey's, then an all-boys public school.
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