( December 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. This section possibly contains original research. However, in 1909, he left university without graduating and drifted, departing England for Canada, where he worked as a farm labourer and did various odd itinerant jobs until happening upon acting. After this, he attended King's College London where he took studies aimed at a career with the British Government's Consular Service. He received his early education at Enfield Grammar School, and later at the public schools of Uppingham School and Merchant Taylors' School. He was the youngest of nine children, and following his mother's death was brought up by his elder siblings. Pratt spent his childhood years in Enfield, in the County of Middlesex.

He learned how to manage his stutter, but not his lisp, which was noticeable throughout his career in the film industry. Pratt was bow-legged, had a lisp, and stuttered as a young boy. His mother's maternal aunt was Anna Leonowens, whose tales about life in the royal court of Siam (now Thailand) were the basis of the musical The King and I. was an Anglo-Indian, from a British father and Indian mother, while Karloff's mother also had some Indian ancestry, thus Karloff had a relatively dark complexion that differed from his peers at the time. His brother, Sir John Thomas Pratt, was a British diplomat. Karloff was born William Henry Pratt on 23 November 1887, at 36 Forest Hill Road, Dulwich, Surrey (now London), England. English Heritage Blue plaque marking Karloff's birthplace at 36 Forest Hill Road, London

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