Larry Grayson - Biography

Biography

Grayson was born William Sulley White in Banbury, north Oxfordshire, in 1923. His parents were unmarried and he never met his father. When Grayson was ten days old, his mother Ethel White arranged for him to be adopted by Alice and Jim Hammond in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. He had two adoptive sisters, Flo and May. His adoptive mother Alice died when he was six years old, and he was brought up by his eldest adoptive sister, Flo, with whom he lived for much of his life. It's been reported that his birth mother stayed in touch with the family and was known to Grayson as "Aunt Ethel" throughout his childhood, until he discovered her true identity in later life.