Gant, Tony

Tony was born in Balham, London, in March 1941, and spent most of his early years in the capital, or with his grandparents in Dorset when the bombing became intensive. He attended Balham High school, Franciscan Road Junior Boys, and then Battersea Grammar School where he obtained O levels in English Language, (Genuine), Music, (Genuine) and French (Not so genuine as a friend obtained the exam paper from the printers a week before the exam, and he, and others paid 10 shillings each to copy it out) . He joined W.H. Smith as a trainee manager, but soon became weary of the set routine, and with h