Guy Barrett was born at Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, England on 19 April 1916. He attended Dover College where he excelled at mathematics; he was the top mathematics student for both of his last two years. By 1933, his father, weighed down by the 1929s Great Depression, felt unable to guarantee his funding for the actuarial course of Guy's dreams. He left school and was accepted by a Canterbury accounting firm. Here, the firm's partners advised him that due to slow business recovery he might do better looking for a job in the Far East where rubber plantations were making a recovery, no doubt spurred by Japan's, Germany's and Britain's rearmament.
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