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==Early life== The son of actor Peter Davey and actress [[Anna Wing]],<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/mark.shtml Profile], bbc.co.uk; accessed 25 November 2015.</ref> Wing-Davey attended [[Woolverstone Hall School]] in [[Suffolk]] before studying English at [[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge]], where he was a member of the [[Footlights]] between 1967 and 1970.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dwid0171bw''The Making of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'']</ref><ref>'Cambridge tripos: results in Economics and English,' ''The Times'', 1 July 1970.</ref> In February 1968, he performed with [[Nick Drake]] at [[Lady Mitchell Hall]], [[University of Cambridge|University Of Cambridge]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nick Drake Setlist at Lady Mitchell Hall, Cambridge |url=https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/nick-drake/1968/lady-mitchell-hall-cambridge-england-bd9c1de.html |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=setlist.fm |language=en}}</ref> Wing-Davey played violin in the string section accompanying Drake on orchestral arrangements of his songs by [[Robert Kirby]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Morton Jack |first=Richard |title=Nick Drake The Life |publisher=[[John Murray (publishing house)|John Murray]] |year=2023 |isbn=9781529308105 |pages=156}}</ref>
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