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|date=7 August 2008 }} accessed 17 April 2019</ref> His mother, Irene Worley ("Lolly") (1906–1998), was a writer of short stories who published under the name "Mary James".<ref>P. Allen, 2001, p. 10</ref> His father, Horace Ayckbourn (1904–1965), was an orchestral violinist and was the lead violinist at the [[London Symphony Orchestra]].<ref>P. Allen, 2001, p. 6</ref> His parents, who separated shortly after [[World War II]], never married, and Ayckbourn's mother divorced her first husband to marry again in 1948.<ref name=p9/>

Ayckbourn wrote his first play at Wisborough Lodge (a preparatory school in the village of [[Wisborough Green]]) when he was about 10.<ref>P. Allen, 2001, p. 20</ref> WhilstWhile he was at prep school as a boarder, his mother wrote to tell him she was marrying Cecil Pye, a bank manager. When he went home for the holidays, hisHis new family consisted of his mother, his stepfather and Christopher, his stepfather's son by an earlier marriage. This relationship too, reportedly ran into difficulties early on.<ref>P. Allen, 2001, pp. 17–19</ref>

Ayckbourn attended [[Haileybury and Imperial Service College]], in the village of [[Hertford Heath]], and, whilstwhile there, he toured Europe and America with the school's Shakespeare company.<ref name=webbio/><ref>P. Allen, 2001, pp. 30–33</ref>

===Adult life===