Editing Patrick Mayhew (section)

==Early life==
Mayhew was born in [[Cookham]], Berkshire, on 11 September 1929.<ref name = ODNB>{{cite ODNB|title = Mayhew, Patrick Barnabas Burke, Baron Mayhew of Twysden (1929–2016), politician|last = Shiels|first = David C.|date = 2020|doi = 10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.111353}}</ref> His father, George Mayhew, was a decorated army officer turned oil executive; his mother, Sheila Roche, descended from members of the Anglo-Irish Protestant ascendancy, was a relative of [[James Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy]], an [[Irish National Federation]] MP for [[East Kerry (UK Parliament constituency)|Kerry East]]. Through his father, Mayhew was descended from the Victorian social commentator [[Henry Mayhew]]. He was educated at [[Tonbridge School]], an all boys [[Public school (United Kingdom)|public school]] in [[Tonbridge]], Kent.<ref>{{harv |Bates|2016}}</ref><ref name="Dictionary of Irish Biography" />

He then served as an officer in the [[4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards]], studied law at [[Balliol College, Oxford]], and was president of the [[Oxford University Conservative Association]] and of the [[Oxford Union]].<ref name="Independent">{{Cite news |date=29 May 1993 |title=Profile: The grandee with the smoking gun: Sir Patrick Mayhew MP, attorney-in-question |work=The Independent |publisher=ESI Media |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/profile-the-grandee-with-the-smoking-gun-sir-patrick-mayhew-mp-attorney-in-question-2316609.html |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=7 April 2020 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/profile-the-grandee-with-the-smoking-gun-sir-patrick-mayhew-mp-attorney-in-question-2316609.html |archive-date=25 May 2022}}</ref> He was [[called to the Bar]] by the [[Middle Temple]] in 1955.<ref name="Dictionary of Irish Biography">{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Mayhew, Patrick Barnabas Burke |encyclopedia=Dictionary of Irish Biography |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/mayhew-patrick-barnabas-burke-a10318 |last=Maume |first=Patrick |date=September 2023}}</ref>