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==Early life== Christopher Martin-Jenkins was born at his grandmother's house in [[Peterborough]], the second of three boys.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/newsreview/theweek/article1188453.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055508/http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/newsreview/theweek/article1188453.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 March 2016 |title=Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Bob Munden |work=The Sunday Times | location=London}}</ref> His father, a [[lieutenant colonel]] in the army at the time, relocated the family to Glasgow where he was stationed. After demobilisation he returned to his job at the shipping firm [[Ellerman Lines]] where he subsequently became chairman.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/christopher-martinjenkins-cricket-journalist-who-worked-on-test-match-special-for-39-years-8434717.html | location=London | work=The Independent | first=Stephen | last=Fay | title=Christopher Martin-Jenkins: Cricket journalist who worked on Test Match Special for 39 years | date=2 January 2013}}</ref> His mother was a radiologist and GP, working in the Gorbals during the war.
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