Deneys Schreinerwas an academic, a scientist, and a man of strong liberal principles, with a good sense of humor and widespread interests in the sciences, arts, and public affairs. Between the 1960s and 1980s, he supported and initiated several important endeavors to promote constitutional futures other than those imposed by the apartheid government. This biography sets out the contexts of Deneys's forebears, his youth, wartime service, studies...