Editing David Crystal (section)

==Family==
Crystal was born in [[Lisburn]], Northern Ireland, on 6 July 1941 after his mother had been [[Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II|evacuated there during The Blitz]]. Before he reached the age of one, his parents separated. He remained estranged from and ignorant of his father for most of his childhood, but later learnt (through work contacts and a half-brother) of the life and career of Samuel Crystal in London, and of his half-Jewish heritage. He grew up with his mother in [[Holyhead]], [[North Wales]], and [[Liverpool]], England, where he attended [[St Mary's College, Crosby|St Mary's College]] from 1951.<ref name="camb">{{cite web | url=http://www.cambridge.org/uk/linguistics/crystal/about_the_author.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060319110035/http://www.cambridge.org/uk/linguistics/crystal/about_the_author.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=19 March 2006 | title=All About...The Author | publisher=Cambridge University Press | access-date=22 May 2015 }}</ref> Crystal is a practising [[Roman Catholic]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/sep/16/academicexperts.languages|title=Interview: John Crace meets language guru David Crystal|first=John|last=Crace|date=15 September 2008|website=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>

He currently lives in Holyhead with his wife, Hilary, a former speech therapist and now children's author. He has four grown-up children. His son [[Ben Crystal]] is also an author, and has co-authored four books with his father.<ref name="indie">{{cite web | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/watch-what-youre-saying-linguist-david-crystal-on-twitter-texting-and-our-native-tongue-1919271.html | title=Watch what you're saying!: Linguist David Crystal on Twitter, texting and our native tongue | work=[[The Independent]] | date=14 March 2010 | access-date=21 May 2015 | last=Lo Dico | first=Joy}}</ref>