Early Life
Mark Chignell was born in Ongar, Essex (near London, England) on June 17, 1956. When he was 3 his family moved to Singapore, where his father taught at a school for Royal Air Force family members. When he was 6 his family moved to Christchurch, New Zealand. He attended St. Andrew's College in Christchurch from 1967 through 1973.
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