This section of a biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. De Burgh went on to graduate from Trinity College Dublin, with a Master of Arts degree in French, English and History. Дe Burgh attended Marlborough College in Wiltshire, England, where he was in the year below Nick Drake de Burgh asked to join a jazz band Drake had formed with four schoolmates, the Perfumed Gardeners, but was rejected as his taste was 'too poppy'. He converted it into a hotel, and young Chris sang for the guests there. It was a twelfth-century castle which Eric de Burgh bought in the 1960s. The Davisons finally settled in Bargy Castle, County Wexford, Ireland, which was somewhat dilapidated at the time. His father had substantial farming interests, and Chris spent much of his early years in Malta, Nigeria and Zaire, as he, his mother and brother accompanied Colonel Davison on his diplomatic and engineering work. He took his mother's maiden name, 'de Burgh', as a stage name when he began performing, while his legal surname remains 'Davison'. His maternal grandfather was Sir Eric de Burgh, a British Army officer who had been Chief of the General Staff in India during the Second World War. De Burgh was born in Venado Tuerto, Argentina, to Colonel Charles John Davison, a British diplomat, and Maeve Emily (nГ©e de Burgh), an Irish secretary.

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