Charles De'Ath was educated at Woolverstone Hall School from 1979 to 1984. (Woolverstone was a state-run (ILEA) boys' boarding school, near Ipswich in Suffolk. Woolverstone Hall is now the home of Ipswich High School for Girls, having been sold after the break-up of the Inner London Education Authority and the Greater London Council in the late 1980s.)