Editing Jonathan Lynn (section)

==Early life==
Lynn was born in [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]], [[Somerset]], the son of physician Robin Lynn and sculptor Ruth Helen (née Eban), whose first cousin on her mother's side was the neurologist [[Oliver Sacks]]. Another cousin, Caroline Sacks, married Nicholas Samuel, 5th [[Viscount Bearsted]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Finally getting somewhere - Essay - Lives|url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/finally-getting-somewhere/|access-date=2020-11-02|website=TLS|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>A Sense of Purpose: Recollections, Suzy Eban, Plunkett Lake Press, 2015</ref><ref>Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 106th edition, vol. 1, Burke's Peerage, Ltd, p. 218</ref><ref name=filmref /> Lynn was educated at [[Kingswood School]], Bath, between 1954 and 1961, after which he studied law at [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]]. (His maternal uncle, Israeli statesman [[Abba Eban]], had also studied at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] in the 1930s.) There he participated in the [[Footlights|Cambridge University Footlights Club]] revue ''[[Cambridge Footlights Revue|Cambridge Circus]]'' (appearing with the revue in 1964 on Broadway and on ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]'').<ref>{{cite web|title=Sir Anthony Jay CVO and Jonathan Lynn|url=http://www.psa.ac.uk/PSAAwards2010_details.aspx?ID=14|publisher=Political Studies Association|access-date=10 February 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110305233730/http://www.psa.ac.uk/PSAAwards2010_details.aspx?ID=14|archive-date=5 March 2011}}</ref><ref name=imdb />