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### Parents and Childhood
His father was an investment banker with [[JPMorgan Chase|J. P. Morgan & Company]], who died of septic pneumonia while serving with the American Expeditionary Forces in France in 1918. His mother, an heiress, had started [[The New Republic]] with her husband in 1914. In 1925 she married [[Leonard Knight Elmhirst]], and the couple ran [[Dartington Hall]], the progressive school in [[Devon]]. Michael was the third and youngest child; his brother [[Whitney Straight]] became a racing driver and head of the [[British Overseas Airways Corporation]], and his sister [[Beatrice Straight]] an actress.[^1] The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] recorded his birth as September 1, 1916, at [[Southampton, Long Island|Southampton]], [[Long Island]], while the [[The New York Times|New York Times]] gave [[New York City]].[^1][^2] He attended the [[Lincoln School]] in New York and Dartington Hall, then spent a year at the [[London School of Economics]] before going on to Cambridge in 1934.[^1] He told the FBI in 1963 that his father died two years after his birth, that he was taken to [[England]] and raised there, and that his early life was that of an orphan who lacked no material thing.[^2] An FBI summary of his military record lists the London School of Economics in 1934 and [[Cambridge University]] from 1934 to 1937.[^3]
His father was an investment banker with [[J. P. Morgan & Co.|J. P. Morgan & Company]], who died of septic pneumonia while serving with the American Expeditionary Forces in France in 1918. His mother, an heiress, had started [[The New Republic]] with her husband in 1914. In 1925 she married [[Leonard Knight Elmhirst]], and the couple ran [[Dartington Hall]], the progressive school in [[Devon]]. Michael was the third and youngest child; his brother [[Whitney Straight]] became a racing driver and head of the [[British Overseas Airways Corporation]], and his sister [[Beatrice Straight]] an actress.[^1] The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] recorded his birth as September 1, 1916, at [[Southampton, Long Island|Southampton]], [[Long Island]], while the [[The New York Times|New York Times]] gave [[New York City]].[^1][^2] He attended the [[Lincoln School]] in New York and Dartington Hall, then spent a year at the [[London School of Economics]] before going on to Cambridge in 1934.[^1] He told the FBI in 1963 that his father died two years after his birth, that he was taken to [[England]] and raised there, and that his early life was that of an orphan who lacked no material thing.[^2] An FBI summary of his military record lists the London School of Economics in 1934 and [[Cambridge University]] from 1934 to 1937.[^3]
### Cambridge and the Apostles