Editing Mark Tully (section)

==Personal life==
Tully was born in [[Tollygunge]] in India <ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-23678823 |title=Why Mark Tully needs a Calcutta birth certificate at 78 |date=20 August 2013 |access-date=20 August 2013 |work=BBC News}}</ref> His father was a British businessman who was a partner in one of the leading managing agencies of the [[British Raj]]. He spent the first decade of his childhood in India, although without being allowed to socialise with Indian people; at the age of four, he was sent to a "British boarding school" in [[Darjeeling]],<ref name="th2" /><ref name="unt">{{cite web |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-4313:1 |title=British and Indian influences in the identities and literature of Mark Tully and Ruskin Bond |last=Lakhani |first=Brenda |year=2003 |publisher=University of North Texas |access-date=25 November 2009}}</ref> before going to England for further schooling from the age of nine. There he was educated at [[Twyford School]] (Hampshire), [[Marlborough College]] and at [[Trinity Hall, Cambridge]], where he studied [[Theology]].<ref name="th2">{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2007/06/18/stories/2007061850540100.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110626051043/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2007/06/18/stories/2007061850540100.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 June 2011 |title=Meeting Mark |date=18 June 2007 |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=25 November 2009}}</ref>

After Cambridge, Tully intended to become a priest in the [[Church of England]] but abandoned the vocation after just two terms at [[Lincoln Theological College]], admitting later that he had doubts about "trusting [his] sexuality to behave as a Christian priest".<ref name="BBC" /> In 2001 he married Margaret, with whom he has four children in London. When in India, however, he lives with his girlfriend Gillian Wright.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1735083.stm |title=Mark Tully: The Voice of India|date=31 December 2001 |publisher=BBC |access-date=28 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/Mighty-words-indeed/article14990094.ece |title=Mighty Words Indeed |date=1 November 2016 |newspaper=The Hindu |access-date=28 April 2017}}</ref> Tully also holds an [[Overseas Citizenship of India]] card.<ref>{{Cite news |date=19 August 2013 |title=Why Mark Tully needs a Calcutta birth certificate at 78 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-23678823 |access-date=23 March 2024 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref>