Early Life and Education
He was born Richard Seymour Norton-Taylor to Lt. Seymour Norton-Taylor, R.A. and Gweneth Joan Powell (died 9 January 1978).
Norton-Taylor was educated at Kings School in Canterbury, Kent, and at Hertford College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford.
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