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Monty Don
Montagu Denis Wyatt "Monty" Don (born 8 July 1955) is a British television presenter, writer and speaker on horticulture, best known for presenting the BBC television series ''Gardeners' World''.
==Early life==
Monty Don was born in Berlin, to British parents, Denis T. K. Don, a career soldier posted in Germany, and Janet Montagu (née Wyatt). Both of his paternal grandparents were Scottish, through whom he is descended from the Keiller family of Dundee, inventors of ship marmalade in 1797.〔("Feuds, shipwrecks and marmalade millionaires: Monty Don digs up his family secrets" 30 July 2010 )〕 Meanwhile, on his maternal side, he is descended from the Wyatts, who were a prominent dynasty of architects.〔 Both parents died in the 1980s.〔Who Do You Think You Are?〕 Don has a twin sister, an elder brother David, and two other siblings. His twin suffered a broken neck in a car crash, aged 19.〔 Don describes his parents as being "very strict".〔()〕
Don was educated at three independent schools: Quidhampton School in Basingstoke, Hampshire, Bigshotte School in Wokingham, Berkshire, and at Malvern College in Malvern, Worcestershire, a college he hated.〔 He then attended a state comprehensive school, the Vyne School, in Hampshire. He failed his A levels and while studying for re-takes at night school, worked on a building site and a pig farm by day. During his childhood he had become an avid gardener and farmer.〔 ("Green fingers, silver tongue". ''Observer'' article 25 May 2008 )〕 He determined to go to Cambridge out of "sheer bloody-mindedness", attending Magdalene College,〔 where he read English and met his future wife Sarah.
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