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==Early life== Leonard Maurice Keysor was born Leonard Maurice Kyezor on 3 November 1885 in [[Maida Vale]], London. He was the third of five children of Benjamin Kyezor, a Jewish clock importer, and Julia Benjamin. Keysor was educated at [[Townley Castle]] in Ramsgate.<ref name=McCarthy>{{cite book|last=McCarthy|first=Dudley|chapter=Keysor, Leonard Maurice (1885β1951) |title=[[Australian Dictionary of Biography|Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9]]|year=1983|publisher=Melbourne University Press|pages=582β583|chapter-url=http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090584b.htm}}</ref> After completing his studies, Keysor travelled to Canada in 1904 where he remained for a period of ten years before emigrating to Australia in 1914 where his brother Stanley and sister Madge were living. He undertook clerical work in [[Sydney]], New South Wales.<ref name=McCarthy/> He was the cousin of British actress and comedienne, [[Rita Webb]].
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