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Geoffrey Scott Mowat was born in Oxford where his father was a history don. He went up to Corpus Christi College in 1936. He married in 1940 before leaving for Malaya to join the Civil service. He also joined the Volunteer Forces and in 1942 became a PoW under the Japanese. He continued his work in the Malayan Civil Service after his release in 1945. He also served as a Christian missionary. He retired to England in the 1990s and wrote his memoirs, "Rainbow through the Rain."