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Griffith Quick was born in 1900, into the Owen family of Dolgellau. He moved to south Wales as a child, and received his education at Aberdare, Glamorganshire. In 1917, his education was interrupted when he entered active military service on board a mine-sweeper, but in 1919 he returned home and entered the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He graduated in Physics in 1923, and went on to complete a diploma in Teachers' Training.

On leaving Aberystwyth, Quick became a teacher at Itchen Grammar School, Southampton. In 1926, he volunteered to work for the London Missionary Society, and left for Rhodesia. He remained there for 16 years, during which time he helped establish the Mbereshi Boarding School for Boys, a technical school, a teachers' training institute and a village school in the Luapula River District. He also organised a new translation of the Old Testament into Bemba, and wrote two books of his own, Kosam: The Story of an African Village Boy, and Arwyr Africa . In 1942, Quick left his volunatry work to become chaplain to the King's African Rifles. He served with them throughout Eastern Africa, producing a handbook for the use of African soldiers in Bemba and Swahili.

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