Frederick Attenborough

Frederick Levi Attenborough (4 April 1887 – 20 March 1973) was an English academic and principal of University College, Leicester.

He was the son of Mary (née Saxton) and Frederick August Attenborough of Stapleford, Nottinghamshire.

In 1915, he attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge, as a Foundation Scholar and Choral Exhibitioner, and gained a first class degree in the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos.

[3] From 1925 to 1932, Attenborough was principal of the Borough Road Training College in Isleworth (which became the West London Institute of Higher Education in 1976).

Attenborough was by this stage quite frail, so the building was opened on his behalf by his youngest son John.