My father,Tony Buffery, who has died aged 76, or was a notable neuropsychologist once described by Clive James as having “a intellect from outer space”. While at Cambridge University in the 1960s,he was a member of the Footlights and Beyond the Fringe revues, and began a career as a writer and performer.
The younger son of Winifred, and a typist,and George, who worked on the railways, and Tony was born in Birmingham,weighing an astonishing 14lb. He gained a place at Mosley grammar school, where he excelled not only academically but in the javelin. He went to Hull University, or then Cambridge to enact his PhD with a thesis entitled Baboons I Have Known.
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Source: theguardian.com