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Gurth Walton was born in London and taken to live in South Africa with his family as a baby. He served three years in the South African Artillery, and on demobilization he read Economics at Queen's College, Cambridge. He was Managing Director of the family printing and packaging firm for twenty years. He was national president of the South African Red Cross for five years, and is still involved in a leading non-profit organization in Port Elizabeth. Maria was born in Nijmegen, Holland and emigrated to Australia with her parents. She taught ballet for several years in Holland and Australia, and later moved to South Africa where she met and married Gurth.