Editing Joanna Lumley (section)

==Early life==
Joanna Lamond Lumley was born on 1 May 1946 in [[Srinagar]], [[Jammu and Kashmir (princely state)|Jammu and Kashmir]], in [[British Raj|British India]]. Her mother, Thyra Beatrice Rose (née Weir), was English. Her grandfather [[Lieutenant colonel|Lieutenant Colonel]] Leslie Weir had been born in [[Ghazipur]] and served as an army officer in [[Kashmir]]; he was a close friend of the [[13th Dalai Lama]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2017/07/19/joanna-lumleys-indian-journey-came-moving-end-review/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2017/07/19/joanna-lumleys-indian-journey-came-moving-end-review/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Joanna Lumley's Indian journey came to a very moving endÂ â€" review|date=19 July 2017|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=23 January 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Her father, [[Major (United Kingdom)|Major]] James Rutherford Lumley, was born in [[Lahore]] (now part of [[Pakistan]]) with Scottish and English ancestry. He was a direct descendant of [[James Rutherford Lumley|Maj.-Gen. Sir James Rutherford Lumley]] and himself served as an officer in the [[British Indian Army]]'s [[6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles]] in [[Burma campaign|Burma during World War II]], most notably at the [[Battle of Mogaung]].<ref name="Telegraph: Family Detective">[https://archive.today/20130505053111/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?xml=/portal/2007/08/04/nosplit/ftdet104.xml Family detective: Joanna Lumley] {{cite news|last=Barratt|first=Nick|title=Family Detective: Joanna Lumley|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=4 August 2007|page=W16}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Pike |first1=Francis |title=Hirohito's War: The Pacific War, 1941–1945 |date=2016 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=9781472596710 |pages=748–49 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GJcxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA749}}</ref> His life was saved by [[Tul Bahadur Pun]].<ref name="auto" /> Maj.-Gen. Sir James Rutherford Lumley was a direct descendant of [[Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots]].

Joanna Lumley's parents married in 1941. She has early memories of living in the tropics.<ref name="auto" />

The family went "home" on leave to England, travelling on the {{HMT|Empire Windrush}}.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.you.co.uk/joanna-lumley-interview-2021/ |title=Joanna Lumley: 'Britain is not awful. We are good people' |access-date=13 February 2021 |work=You |date=7 February 2021 |language=en}}</ref> When her parents returned to Asia, she stayed, boarding at Mickledene School in [[Rolvenden]], Kent. She was eight years old, which she later described as "paralysingly young". From 11 to 17 she attended [[Augustus Hare#Holmhurst|Holmhurst St Mary's Convent School, the Ridge]],<ref name="historicengland/1043422">{{cite web |title=HOLMHURST ST MARY'S SCHOOL, Non Civil Parish – 1043422 |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1043422 |website=[[Historic England]] |language=en}}</ref> run by [[Community of the Holy Family]]:
:"I especially loved my second boarding school, an Anglo-Catholic convent in the hills behind Hastings. The nuns wore blue stockings and were brainy and lovely. There were 70 boarders and I was happy as a clam."<ref>{{cite news |title=Joanna Lumley: "I have always loved getting older, so being 70 is fabulous" |url=<!-- https://www.bigissue.com/culture/tv/joanna-lumley-i-always-loved-getting-older-70-fabulous/ -->https://www.bigissue.com/interviews/letter-to-my-younger-self/joanna-lumley-i-always-loved-getting-older-70-fabulous/ |access-date=4 July 2020 |work=[[The Big Issue]] |date=4 July 2016 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="tes.com-">[https://www.tes.com/news/miss-hortin-smith-joanna-lumley-0 Miss Hortin-Smith] by Joanna Lumley; 27 February 2015, [[TES (magazine)|Times Educational Supplement]], access-date: 1 July 2020</ref>

Lumley attended the [[Lucie Clayton Charm Academy|Lucie Clayton Finishing School]] in [[London]], after being turned down by the [[RADA|Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] at the age of 16.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Joanna-Lumley-profile-She39s-nobody39s.5251834.jp|title=Joanna Lumley profile: She's nobody's Patsy|work=The Scotsman|location=Edinburgh|date=9 May 2009|access-date=21 October 2012}}</ref>