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==Early life== Martin Booth was born in [[Lancashire]], England,{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} as the son of Joyce and Ken Booth, the latter of which was a Royal Navy civil servant.<ref name="miller">{{cite journal |last1=Miller |first1=Roger K. |title=An English Boy's Happy Hong Kong Childhood |journal=World & I |date=May 2006 |volume=21 |issue=5 |page=10}}</ref> Martin has said that his parents had a difficult marriage, as his father was stern, pompous, and humourless, while his mother was adventurous, witty, and sociable.<ref name="miller"/> The family moved to [[Hong Kong]] in May 1952, where his father was stationed for a three-year tour as a grocery supplier to the British Navy.<ref name="miller"/><ref name="Boughton">{{cite journal |last1=Boughton |first1=Vick |title=Golden Boy |journal=People |date=23 January 2006 |volume=65 |issue=3 |page=46}}</ref> In his memoir “Gweilo: A memoir of a Hong Kong Childhood” Booth recalls that the streets of Hong Kong were safe, and he would explore the city alone as a child.<ref name="miller"/> He encountered things he was unfamiliar with: dogs hung in a butcher shop, an impoverished family living in a packing crate, and a Russian refugee who claimed to be the [[Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia#False reports of survival|missing Russian princess Anastasia]].<ref name="miller"/> People would touch his blond hair for good luck.<ref name="miller"/> He and his mother also learned Cantonese.<ref name="Boughton"/> He attended Kowloon Junior School, the [[Peak School]], then [[King George V School (Hong Kong)|King George V School]], and left in 1964. From 1965 to 1968 he attended [[Trent Park College of Education]] in [[Cockfosters]], North London, part of what is now [[Middlesex University]]. His main subject was science, and he obtained the Certificate of Education.
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