John Swift Joly was a consultant surgeon at Goondiwindi Hospital, Queensland, Australia. He was born in London on 21 March 1912, the only child of John Swift Joly, an eminent urologist and a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Mary Tottenham Fitzpatrick, the daughter of a Dublin bank manage

Born at Athlone, 3 June 1876, youngest child of the three sons and two daughters of the Rev John Swift Joly, Rector of the parish, and Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of the Rev Nathaniel Slator. The Rev J S Joly was the second son, but the only one to marry and have issue, of Charles Joseph Joly of C