Early Life and Education
He was born Raymond George Grace into an Irish-Australian Catholic family in Richmond, New South Wales, Australia. He was the youngest of four children and their only son. His mother changed the family surname to Martin to prevent her abusive, alcoholic husband from finding her and their children after they fled from him in c. 1955. She and the children moved many times, settling in Adelaide and in Tasmania.
He studied engineering on scholarship at university, but changed his mind and studied to become an English history teacher. He was the first member of his family to attend college.
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