Education
Alan Duncan was educated at two independent schools: Beechwood Park School in Markyate, and Merchant Taylors' School in Northwood, at both of which he was 'Head Monitor' (head boy). Whilst coming from a Liberal family, and running (and losing) as a Liberal at a school mock election in 1970, Duncan joined the Young Conservatives in 1972. Alan Duncan had two brothers, who also attended Beechwood Park School, Robin and Kevin. Robin was also Head Boy.
Duncan then attended St John's College at the University of Oxford, where he coxed the college first eight, and was elected President of the Oxford Union in 1979. Whilst there, he formed a friendship with Benazir Bhutto, and ran her successful campaign to become the President of the Oxford Union. He then went on to win a Kennedy Scholarship to study at Harvard University between 1981 and 1982.
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