largely to the classics, and something for which Dirac would later express his gratitude. One of his peers at Bishop Road School was Archibald Leach, later famous as Cary Grant.

Dirac studied electrical engineering on a City of Bristol University Scholarship at the University of Bristol's engineering faculty, which was co-located with the Merchant Venturers' Technical College. Shortly before he completed his degree in 1921, he sat for the entrance examination