Christopher Meyer

==Early life and education==
[[File:Lancing College Chapel.jpg|thumb|left|Lancing College]]
Meyer was born in [[Beaconsfield]], Buckinghamshire, on 22 February 1944, to Reginald Henry Rome Meyer and his wife, Eve.<ref name="MacAskill" /><ref name = Murphy>{{cite news|url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/07/29/meyer-britain-ambassador-dies/|title = Christopher Meyer, British envoy to U.S. amid buildup to Iraq War, dies at 78|last = Murphy|first = Brian|newspaper = [[The Washington Post]]|date = 29 July 2022|accessdate = 29 July 2022|url-access = limited}}</ref> Reginald was a [[flight lieutenant]] in Coastal Command of the [[Royal Air Force|RAF]] who was killed in action over the Greek island of [[Icaria]] 13 days before his son was born; in 2011, Meyer visited the island and met witnesses of the shooting-down and burial of his father.<ref name = MacAskill>{{cite news|url = https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/29/sir-christopher-meyer-obituary|title = Sir Christopher Meyer obituary|newspaper = [[The Guardian]]|date = 29 July 2022|accessdate = 29 July 2022|last = MacAskill|first = Ewen}}</ref>

Meyer was educated at [[Lancing College]], a boarding independent school for boys (now co-educational), near the town of [[Lancing, West Sussex|Lancing]] in West Sussex, the [[Lycée Henri-IV]] in Paris and [[Peterhouse, Cambridge|Peterhouse]] at the [[University of Cambridge]], where he graduated in History (he was an honorary fellow of Peterhouse from 2002 on).<ref name = MacAskill/> After graduating, he attended the [[Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies]] at [[Bologna]].<ref name = MacAskill/>
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