Maurice Heenan

Maurice Heenan was born in Wyndham, Southland, New Zealand on 8 October 1912. His mother was Ann Frame (died 1976) and his father was David Donnoghue Heenan (died 1942). Maurice attended Canterbury College in New Zealand from 1937–1946 and received his LLB from Canterbury College, University of New Zealand in 1946. In 1944, he was selected to attend Staff College, Camberley in the UK where he was awarded the Staff College Award. It was in London, England where he met his future wife, who was attending a summer course for foreign students at Oxford and was one of the first students that the Czechoslovakian government permitted to attend a foreign college after the war. In 1951, he married Claire Gabriela Stephanie daughter of Emil Ciho...