Hugh Schofield
Hugh Robert Armstrong Schofield is a British journalist who is the Paris Correspondent for BBC News, the main newsgathering department of the BBC, and its 24-hour television news channels BBC World News and BBC News Channel, as well as the BBC's domestic television and radio channels and the BBC World Service. He was formerly a BBC correspondent across Europe, the Middle East and United States. He became BBC Paris Correspondent in 1996.
Early life and education
Schofield was born in Cardiff in Glamorgan in South Wales, in 1961. He has an elder brother and a younger sister.In September 1974, after leaving prep school, Schofield was educated at Clifton College, a boarding independent school in the suburb of Clifton in the city of Bristol in South West England. He entered the school at the age of thirteen as a scholar, where he boarded at School House, and left in summer 1978. The following year, he went to St John's College at the University of Oxford, where he studied Arabic and Turkish.
Schofield's older brother, was two years his senior at Clifton College although he entered in the same year, 1974. Philip went on to become an Exhibitioner in Modern Languages at Christ Church at the University of Oxford.