Editing David Jenkins (bishop) (section)

==Early life==
Jenkins was born in [[Bromley]], Kent, to Lionel Jenkins, who worked in a bank, and his wife Dora (née Page).<ref name=Telegraph_obit /><ref name=Guardian_obit /> His family were [[Methodism|Methodist]].<ref name=BBC_obit /> He was educated at [[St Dunstan's College]], [[Catford]].<ref name=Telegraph_obit>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/09/04/the-right-reverend-david-jenkins-bishop-of-durham--obituary/ |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |issue=((50,165)) |date=5 September 2016 |page=25 |title=The Right Reverend David Jenkins: Bishop of Durham who created a storm for the Church but was admired within his diocese |access-date=3 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418092722/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/09/04/the-right-reverend-david-jenkins-bishop-of-durham--obituary/ |archive-date=18 April 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=Guardian_obit>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/04/david-jenkins-obituary |title=The Right Rev David Jenkins obituary |author=Dennis Nineham |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=4 September 2016 |access-date=8 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160907215640/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/04/david-jenkins-obituary |archive-date=7 September 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> Having attended a Church of England ordination conference at [[Bangalore]] during his service in India, he took up a scholarship to enter [[Queen's College, Oxford]],<ref name=tcoc1 /> where he graduated in 1954.<ref name=whoswho />

During the [[Second World War]], he was [[conscription|called up]] in the autumn of 1943.<ref name=tcoc1>{{cite book|title=The calling of a cuckoo, not quite an autobiography|last=Jenkins|first=David E.|year=2002|publisher=Continuum|page=[https://archive.org/details/callingofcuckoo00davi/page/ xii]|isbn=0-8264-4991-3|url=https://archive.org/details/callingofcuckoo00davi/page/}}Introduction.</ref> He was commissioned in the [[Royal Artillery]] after officer training at [[Harrogate]] in April 1945.<ref name=tcoc2>{{cite book|title=The calling of a cuckoo|page=plate1}}Between pages 106-107.</ref> At the end of the war he was a staff officer at General Headquarters in [[India]].<ref name=tcoc3>{{cite book|title=The calling of a cuckoo|page=14}}</ref> In 1946 he was attached to the 10th Indian Field Regiment, [[Royal Indian Artillery]] before its disbandment.<ref name=tcoc4>{{cite book|title=The calling of a cuckoo.|page=xiii}}Introduction.</ref> He demobilised as a [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in 1947.<ref name=whoswho>{{cite book|title=Who's Who, 2012|date=19 January 2012|publisher=A and C Black|page=1201|isbn=978-1-408-14229-5}}</ref>