Early Life and Education
Stone attended Glasgow Academy on a scholarship for the children of dead servicemen – his father having been killed in the war – and graduated with First Class Honours in History from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, England (1959–1962). Following his undergraduate degree, Stone did research in Central European History in Vienna and Budapest (1962–1965).
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