Edwin Southern was born in Chorley Lancashire and educated at Gawthorpe High School,  then he continued as a graduate student in the Department of Mathematics, the University of Oxford where he was awarded his master's degree in 1965.
Edwin Southern was born in Chorley Lancashire and educated at Gawthorpe High School,  then he continued as a graduate student in the Department of Mathematics, the University of Oxford where he was awarded his master's degree in 1965.