Early Life
Raised in the Somerset Region in Linville Queensland to May Helena Ryan and her husband Matthew a bushman and horseman, he learnt the rudiments of boxing as a young boy. He attended boarding-school for his high-school years at St Joseph's, Nudgee from 1948-52 where he started to play rugby union.
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