Editing Anne Robinson (section)

==Early life==
Robinson was born in [[Crosby, Merseyside|Crosby]], [[Lancashire]]<!--Lancashire pre-1974-->, on 26 September 1944 and is of British and Irish descent.<ref name="Post.ie">[http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2001/11/11/story390682828.asp "Memoirs of an Unfit Mother by Anne Robinson" – Post.ie] – 11 November 2001 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060827213944/http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2001/11/11/story390682828.asp |date=27 August 2006}}</ref> Her father was a schoolteacher. Her mother, Anne Josephine (''[[née]]'' Wilson),<ref name="Lawson">{{cite episode |series=Mark Lawson Talks To... |first=Mark (presenter) |last=Lawson |author-link=Mark Lawson |network=[[BBC Four]] |date=28 February 2011}}</ref> was an agricultural businesswoman from Northern Ireland, where she was the manager of a market stall. When she came to England, she married into her husband's family of wholesale chicken dealers, and sold rationed rabbit following the [[World War II|Second World War]].<ref name="Post.ie"/> She inherited the family market stall in [[Liverpool]] and transformed it into one of the largest wholesale poultry dealing businesses in the north of England.

Brought up initially at the family home in Crosby, Robinson attended a private [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] [[convent]] [[boarding school]] in [[Hampshire]], [[Farnborough Hill|Farnborough Hill Convent]], now known as Farnborough Hill. She was hired as a chicken gutter and saleswoman during the holidays in the family business, before taking office jobs at a law firm. The family spent their summers on holiday in France, often at the [[Carlton Cannes Hotel|Carlton Hotel]] in [[Cannes]].<ref name="YCFMIF">{{cite episode |title=Anne Robinson |series=You Can't Fire Me, I'm Famous |first=Piers (presenter) |last=Morgan |author-link=Piers Morgan |network=[[BBC One]] |date=7 August 2007 |series-no=2 |number=3}}</ref>