Rearrange the parts of the following sentence to make it a meaningful sentence.

While a student in London he began to take an interest in contemporary politics. (A)/  Wells was a British author and one of the earliest writers of science fiction. (B)/ But he later received a scholarship to study science in London. (C)/ He came from a lower-middle-class family and was apprenticed to a draper at the age of fifteen. (D)