Early Life
Colin Beyer was born in New Zealand in 1938 to Danish parents, Kanute and Karla Beyer. His father worked on the wharves in Wellington and his mother worked for the Education Department. Together with his younger brother Trevor and his sister Olga, they lived in Island Bay. Both brothers attended Wellington College.
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