Patrick Stewart

Patrick Stewart[1] was born in Murfield in the West Riding of Yorkshire on 13 July 1940,[2] the son of Gladys (née Barrowclough), a weaver and textile worker, and Alfred Stewart (1905–1980), a regimental sergeant major in the British Army during the Second World War who later worked as a general laborers and postman.[3] He has two older brothers named Geoffrey (1925–1974) and Trevor (born 1935).[4][5][6] He spent much of his childhood in a poor household in Jarrow, where he experienced domestic violence at the hands of his father.[7][8] As a result of wartime service during the Dunkirk evacuation, his father suffered from combat fatigue, which is now known as PTSD. Stewart said in 2008, "My father was a very potent individual, a very powerful man, who got what he wanted. It was said that when he strode onto the parade ground, birds stopped singing. It was many, many years before I realized how my father inserted himself into my work. I've grown a moustache for Macbeth. My father didn't have one, but when I looked in the mirror just before I went on stage, I saw my father's face staring straight back at me."[9]