ROSEBERRY BOKWE

As a young man, Rosebery was always on the programmes for concerts and plays. He was an excellent performer and comedian and sang very well, was a good choir conductor and as with all of us proficient on the piano. When he was doing his medical course in Edinburgh, many felt he had missed his vocation and should really have been on the stage. The audiences went into raptures with his tap dancing to his own singing in the University Variety shows which were a feature of entertainment in the early 30's. We had all helped to make his training as a doctor possible. Our various shares in the little sum of money father [John Knox Bokwe] had left us as we came of age; all went to pay his expenses at Medical School, and as we started work, each sent a share of our meagre wages to mother towards our brother's training.

-Frieda Bokwe Matthews, Remembrances, (1995).