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==Early life== Halliday was born in Woodburn Cottage, [[Wemyss Bay]], [[Renfrewshire]], the son of James Wightman Halliday, an [[estate (land)|estate]] gardener. Halliday was educated at Skelmorlie Primary School and [[Greenock Academy]].<ref name = "bbc"/> He joined the SNP in 1943, aged 16, and also registered for military service in [[World War II]]. Halliday began studying at the [[University of Glasgow]] in 1944, joining the [[Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association]] and playing an active part in [[Glasgow University Union|union]] debates. Then [[tuberculosis]] of the spine left him unable to stand until 1947, and it was 1952 before he graduated.
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