page_title: Martin Horwood
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: Martin Horwood / Early life and education
caption_attribution_description: English: Cheltenham College Chapel (left) and Library (Big Modern, right)
context_page_description: Martin Charles Horwood is a British Liberal Democrat politician who represented South West England in the European Parliament from 2019 to 2020. He previously served as the Member of Parliament for Cheltenham from 2005 to 2015.
  During his tenure, he founded the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tribal Peoples. Horwood now serves as Director of Engagement and Impact at Development Initiatives.
context_section_description: Horwood was born in St. Paul's, Cheltenham. His parents lived first in St. Mark's and then in Leckhampton, where his mother still lives.
  He attended two independent schools in Cheltenham, Pate's Junior School and Cheltenham College. At the latter, he was a contemporary of fellow MP Chris Bryant and sat next to him in English classes. He joined the Cheltenham Young Liberals in 1979 while still at school.
  In 1981, he went on to read Modern History at The Queen's College, Oxford, and was elected president of the Oxford Student Liberal Society and then chair of the party's national student wing, the Union of Liberal Students.
caption: Cheltenham College
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