Editing Ian Hislop (section)

== Early life ==
[[File:Ardingly College, Sussex.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|[[Ardingly College]] in [[West Sussex]]]]
Hislop was born on 13 July 1960<ref>{{Cite book |title=Debrett's People of Today 2005 |publisher=[[Debrett's]] |year=2005 |isbn=1-870520-10-6 |edition=18th |page=769}}</ref> in [[Mumbles (district)|Mumbles]], [[Swansea]], to a Scottish father, David Hislop, from [[Ayrshire]], and a Channel Islander mother born in [[Jersey]], Helen Rosemarie Hislop (née Beddows), who left for Wales in her late teens.<ref name="wdytya IH">{{Cite episode |title=Who Do You Think You Are? with Ian Hislop |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/get_started/wdytya_s1_celeb_gallery_05.shtml |series=Who Do You Think You Are? |series-link=Who Do You Think You Are? (British TV series) |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC Two]] |date=9 November 2004}}</ref>

Hislop did not know his grandparents. His paternal grandfather, David Murdoch Hislop, died just before he was born. His maternal grandfather, William Beddows, was originally from [[Lancashire]].<ref name="wdytya IH" />

When he was five months old, Hislop's family began to travel around the world because of his father's job as a civil engineer.<ref name="wdytya IH" /> During his infant years, Hislop lived in Nigeria, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Hong Kong.<ref name="Moss">{{Cite news |last=Moss, Stephen |date=23 September 2011 |title=Ian Hislop: satirist in chief |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/sep/23/ian-hislop-private-eye}}</ref> Hislop has said he possibly went to school with [[Osama bin Laden]] while in Saudi Arabia.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Naughton |first1=Pete |last2=Reynolds |first2=Gillian |date=5 May 2009 |title=BBC iPlayer choices – Saturday 9 May |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-on-demand/5255512/BBC-iPlayer-choices-Saturday-2-May.html |access-date=18 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite episode |title='The BBC is under threat': Private Eye editor Ian Hislop interview |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvaSGeuFvSk |access-date=18 October 2020 |series=[[PoliticsJOE]] |date=9 October 2020 |minutes=1:55 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/uvaSGeuFvSk |archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live |website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> When Hislop was 12 years old his father died; his mother died when he was 32.<ref name="wdytya IH" /> On his return to Britain he was educated at [[Ardingly College]], an independent boarding school, where he became [[head boy]], and began his satirical career directing and appearing in [[revue]]s alongside [[Nick Newman]].<ref name="Moss" />

Hislop's and Newman's association continued when they attended [[Oxford University]] together; later they worked together at ''[[Private Eye]]'' and on comedy scriptwriting jobs. Hislop applied to read [[philosophy, politics and economics]] at Oxford, but changed to [[English literature]] before arriving at [[Magdalen College, Oxford|Magdalen College]]. His Oxford tutors included [[Bernard O'Donoghue]], [[John Fuller (poet)|John Fuller]] and [[David Norbrook]]. While at university, Hislop was actively involved in student journalism;<ref name="ot">{{Cite news |last=Neale |first=Greg |year=2009 |title=Home from Gnome |volume=22 |page=56 |work=[[Oxford Today]] |issue=1 |url=https://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/page.aspx?pid=960 |url-status=dead |access-date=13 September 2018 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121223091511/https://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/page.aspx?pid=960 |archive-date=23 December 2012}}</ref> he relaunched and edited the satirical magazine ''Passing Wind''.<ref name="Moss" /> He graduated with a [[2:1]] in 1981.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Bee |first1=Peter Wynter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AICHdUj3AvcC&pg=PA95 |title=People of the Day 3 |last2=Clapham |first2=Lucy |publisher=People of the Day Limited |year=2008 |isbn=9780954811020 |location=Woking |pages=95}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=6 August 1998 |title=Education: Passed/failed - Ian Hislop |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/education-passedfailed-ian-hislop-1169922.html |access-date=5 July 2019 |website=The Independent}}</ref>