I was born in Allahabad, U.P.India on the 24th October 1929. My father James Jonathan Roberts was living in Calcutta, my mother was from Muirabad Allahabad .Sometime in 1926/27 father went to Allahabad to find a new bride. He landed up at mothers place fell in love with her . The proposal was accepted by mother and they were married in St. Peters Church Muirabad Allahabad. He took her back to Calcutta and they had a lovely home at Diamond Harbour. Mother came to .her home for my birth. I grew with my brother and sister in Calcutta till 1936. The family moved back to our maternal grandparents place sometime in 1936. My maternal grandparents gave my mother a plot of land as a wedding gift Nana had quite a lot of land. Dad built a nice bungalow in 1937 and .this was named CYNTHIA VILLA. Dad died suddenly in 1938, He is buried in the Muirabad graveyard . Cynthia Villa was our home and our childhood a very one till my sisters tragic death in 1947. Mother faced much sorrow which she bore very bravely .She Instilled good habits and manners into each one of us and her own brothers and sister and other family members put in her care. She joined The WACIs became a sergeant in charge of a parachute packing department that packed parachutes for Wingate of Burma, and had the unique that not a single parachute of her section failed. She made sacrifices to see me through University. When she was with the forces we were put into boarding school. The colvin Section of the B,H,S. Allahabad. After leaving school, I went to Ewing Christian College, Allahabad, passed the Intermediate Science with Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics in 1950. I did well in sports and debates under Dr B.B.Malvea.,After my B.Sc I also worked as a Chemistry Demonstrator in Ewing when Dr S.S.Gideon was principal of the College. After completing the Inter Science I joined the Bachelor of Science degree course and Attached to Holland Hall. I was in University boxing team and President of the S.C.M.( Student Christian Movement.]. Here my ambitions took a turn and I later left my masters to became the Travelling Secretary. of The Student Christian ..Movement of Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. Lorna Shepherd the girl I had decided I would marry was not happy with the thought of me travelling round the world, as I had been Selected by the World Student Christian Federation . So I turned down their offer .Just about this point in my life came in Mr.A.E.T.Barrow, The Anglo-Indian M.P.who made it possible for me go for a years crash course under E.V.Staynor at St. Marys Training College,Poona where the mens training section had moved from Goragalli in Pakistan. So I became a teacher of maths and Science.
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