My Beginnings
I was born in Ootacamund, which is in the Nilgeri Hills of South India, on the 19th of April, 1917. It was then the Madras Presidency, but now Tamil Nadu. My parents were English missionaries working on the plains below. I had an elder and younger brother.
I went to Breeks Memorial School, Ootacamund, which was then run by Brethren Missionaries, from 1924 to 1930. Aged 13, we returned to Britain and I went to a private Boarding School in Exeter, Devon, for three years. Mount Radford School under the Headmastership of Theo. Vine. A Christian Brethren school.
My parents had settled in Glasgow, Scotland, to work for their Mission, so I had my last two years of School at Whitehill Secondary School, Dennistoun. I then was apprenticed to Arthur & Company, Scotland’s biggest Wholesaler. It took up a block off Queen St. in central Glasgow.
