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==Early life== Jay was born in London. He attended [[Pinner County Grammar School]],<ref name="Pinner">{{cite web|title=History of the site|url=http://www.pinnerhighschool.org/page/?pid=19|website=Pinner High School|access-date=26 October 2017}}</ref> and completed his [[Conscription in the United Kingdom#After 1945|National Service]] with the [[Royal Air Force]] in 1953.<ref name="Avengers">{{cite web|title=Tony Jay β Writer, director|url=http://www.declassified.hiddentigerbooks.co.uk/radio_biogs_tony_jay.htm|website=The Avengers Declassified|access-date=26 October 2017|archive-date=14 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014091422/http://www.declassified.hiddentigerbooks.co.uk/radio_biogs_tony_jay.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> He later recalled, "I was always an actor at school"; but opted for the financial security of a real estate business. Jay moved to [[South Africa]] in about 1966,<ref name="Nemy"/> after hearing of the potential there for his line of work.<ref name="Log21">{{cite news|last1=Gross|first1=Edward|title=To Reign in Hell|url=http://www.batb.tv/images/batb/tony3.jpg|access-date=5 November 2017|work=Starlog|date=November 1989|archive-date=25 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160625103609/http://www.batb.tv/images/batb/tony3.jpg|page=21}}</ref> He left South Africa to return to England in 1973, after which he moved to the United States in 1986.<ref name="LAT Obit"/>
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