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Where did Piers Morgan go to college and high school?

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British broadcaster, journalist, writer, and television personality Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan holds a degree in English literature.

At The Sun, he started history Fleet Street career in 1988. Rupert Murdoch appointed him editor of the News of the World in 1994 when he was only 29 years old, making him the newspaper’s youngest editor in more than 50 years. Morgan edited the Daily Mirror starting in 1995, but she was fired in 2004. From 2006 to 2007, he served as First News’ editorial director.

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Kindly read on to explore more about his educational background.

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Where did Piers Morgan go to college and high school?

Morgan was born Piers Stefan O’Meara on March 30, 1965, in Surrey to his parents Gabrielle Georgina Sybille an Englishwoman who raised  Morgan as a Catholic, and Vincent Eamonn O’Meara, an Irish dentist from County Offaly.

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From the time he was seven years old until the time he was thirteen, he attended the independent Cumnor House prep school.

After that, he attended Chailey School, a comprehensive secondary school in Chailey, and then Priory School in Lewes for the sixth form.

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Morgan studied journalism at Harlow College after working for Lloyd’s of London for nine months, and in 1985, he started working for the Surrey and South London Newspaper Group.

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