Richard Charles Nicholas Branson was born on July 18, 1950, in Surrey, England. His father, Edward James Branson, worked as a barrister while his mother, Eve Branson, was employed as a flight attendant. He is the eldest of three children born to barrister Edward James Branson (1918–2011), and Eve Branson (born 1924), a former ballet dancer and air hostess.
Branson has two younger sisters. His grandfather, the Right Honourable Sir George Arthur Harwin Branson, was a judge of the High Court of Justice and a Privy Councillor. Richard had a hard time with educational institutions. He was educated at Scaitcliffe School. He nearly failed out of the all-boys until the age of 13 when in Scaitcliffe School. He then transferred to Stowe School, a boarding school in Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England until the age of sixteen. Branson has dyslexia and had poor academic performance as a student and on his last day at school, his headmaster, Robert Drayson, told him he would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. Branson's parents were supportive of his endeavors from an early age.
Branson choose to continue struggling and lastly dropped out at the age of 16 to start a youth-culture magazine called Student. The magazine launched in 1966 and all the publication run by students sold $8,000 worth of advertising in its first edition. The first run of 50,000 copies was disseminated for free, after Branson covered the costs with advertising.
Branson lived at a place that surrounded by the British music and drug scene which in a London commune by 1969. It was during this time that Branson had the idea to begin a mail-order record company called Virgin to help fund his magazine efforts. The company performed modestly, but made Branson enough that he was able to expand his business venture, adding a record shop in Oxford Street, London. With the success of the record shop, the high school drop-out was able to build a recording studio in 1972 in Oxfordshire, England.
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