Editing Robert Conquest (section)

==Early life and education==
Conquest was born in [[Great Malvern]], Worcestershire,<ref name="NYTobit"/> to an American father, Robert Folger Wescott Conquest, and an English mother, Rosamund Alys Acworth.<ref>Encyclopedia of British Writers, 19th and 20th Centuries by Christine L. Krueger p. 87</ref><ref>''Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature'', Vol. 2 By R. Reginald, Douglas Menville, Mary A. Burgess</ref> His father served in an [[AFS Intercultural Programs|American Ambulance Field Service]] unit with the [[French Army in World War I]], and was awarded the [[Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)|Croix de Guerre, with Silver Star]] in 1916.<ref>Supplement to the ''Alumni Register'' (October 1920), "Pennsylvania; A Record of the University's Men in the Great War", University of Pennsylvania General Alumni Society, 1920, p. 40.</ref>

Conquest was educated at [[Winchester College]], where he won an [[Exhibition (scholarship)|exhibition]] to study [[Philosophy, Politics and Economics]] (PPE) at [[Magdalen College, Oxford]]. He took a gap year, spending time at the [[University of Grenoble]] and in Bulgaria, and returning to Oxford in 1937, where he joined the [[Communist Party of Great Britain]] and the [[Carlton Club]].<ref name=Brown/> He was awarded an [[Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin)|MA]] in PPE and a [[DLitt]] in history.<ref>{{cite web |title=Robert Conquest |url=https://www.hoover.org/profiles/robert-conquest |website=Hoover Institution |accessdate=11 February 2019}}</ref>