Early life and career[edit] Ashdown was the eldest of seven children: four brothers and two sisters.[4] He was born in New Delhi, British India,[5] on 27 February 1941[6][7] to a family of soldiers and colonial administrators who spent their lives in India.[8] His father was a lapsed Catholic, and his mother a Protestant. His mother (née Hudson) was a nurse in the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nurs
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