Reginald Fessenden
Reginald Fessenden was born October 6, 1866, in East-Bolton, Quebec, the eldest of the Reverend Elisha Joseph Fessenden and Clementina Trenholme's four children. Elisha Fessenden was a Church of England in Canada minister, and the family moved to a number of postings throughout the province of Ontario.
P. R. Stephensen
Percy Reginald Stephensen was born on 20 November 1901 in Maryborough, Queensland. He was the eldest son of Swiss immigrant Christian Julius Stephensen and his wife Marie Tardent, daughter of journalist Henry Tardent. In his youth he attended Biggenden State School and later Maryborough Boys Grammar School. Though sustaining mediocre performance at Maryborough, Stephensen displayed an affinity for polemics.