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==Education==
Garton Ash was born to John Garton Ash (1919-2014) and Lorna Judith Freke. His father was educated at [[Trinity Hall, Cambridge]] and was involved in finance, as well as being a [[Royal Artillery]] officer in the [[British Army]] during the [[Second World War]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10971430/John-Garton-Ash-obituary.html|title=John Garton Ash - obituary|newspaper=The Telegraph|access-date=12 January 2017}}</ref> Garton Ash was educated at [[St Edmund's School, Hindhead]], [[Surrey]],<ref name="sain_St.E" /> before going on to [[Sherborne School]], a well-known public school in [[Dorset]] in [[South West England]], followed by [[Exeter College, Oxford]] where he studied [[Modern History]].
For post-graduate study, he went to [[St Antony's College, Oxford]], and then, in the still divided [[Berlin Soviet Zone|Berlin]], the [[Free University of Berlin|Free University]] in [[West Berlin]] and the [[Humboldt University of Berlin|Humboldt University]] in [[East Berlin]]. During his studies in East Berlin, he was under surveillance from the [[Stasi]], which served as the basis for his 1997 book ''The File''.<ref name="nybooks">{{cite journal |last=Ash |first=Timothy |authorlink=Timothy Garton Ash |date=2007-05-31 |title=The Stasi on Our Minds |url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2007/may/31/the-stasi-on-our-minds/ |journal=The New York Review of Books |accessdate=2014-11-17}}</ref> Garton Ash cut a suspect figure to the Stasi, who regarded him as a "bourgeois-liberal" and potential British spy.<ref name="ind">{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/memoirs-of-an-inadvertent-spy-1195468.html|title=Memoirs of an inadvertent spy|newspaper=The Independent|access-date=12 January 2017}}</ref> Although he denies being or having been a British intelligence operative, Garton Ash described himself as a "soldier behind enemy lines" and described the [[German Democratic Republic]] as a "very nasty regime indeed."<ref name="ind"/>
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Garton Ash describes himself as a [[liberal internationalist]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/13/liberal-internationalists-populists-globalisation|title=Liberal internationalists have to own up: we left too many people behind|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=12 September 2017}}</ref> He is a supporter of what he calls the [[free world]] and [[liberal democracy]], represented in his view by the [[European Union]], the [[United States]] as a super-power, and [[Angela Merkel]]'s leadership of Germany. Garton Ash opposed [[Scottish independence]] and argued for [[Britishness]], writing in ''[[The Guardian]]'': "... being British has changed into something worth preserving, especially in a world of migration where peoples are going to become ever more mixed up together. As men and women from different parts of the former British empire have come to live here in ever larger numbers, the post-imperial identity has become, ironically but not accidentally, the most liberal, civic, inclusive one."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/may/03/scotland.devolution1|title=Independence for Scotland would not be good for England|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=12 September 2017}}</ref>
Garton Ash first came to prominence during the Cold War as a supporter of [[free speech]] and [[human rights]] within countries which were part of the [[Soviet Union]] and [[Eastern Bloc]], paying particular attention to Poland and Germany. In more recent times he has represented a British liberal pro-EU viewpoint, nervous at the rise of [[Vladimir Putin]], [[Donald Trump]] and [[Brexit]]. He is strongly opposed to conservative and populist leaders of EU nations such as [[Viktor Orbán]] of [[Hungary]], arguing that Merkel should "freeze him out", evoking "[[appeasement]]."<ref name="orban">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/12/viktor-orban-appeasement-merkel-centre-right-hungary|title=We know the price of appeasement.
==Personal life==
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