Malcom Fraser knew from personal experience what the person who stutters is up against. His introduction to stuttering corrective procedures first came at the age of fifteen under the direction of Frederick Martin M.D.A few years later, he worked with J. Stanley Smith L.L.D., a stutterer and philanthropist who, for altuistic reasons, founded the Kingsley Clubs in Philadelphia and New York that were named after the English author, Charles Kingsley who also stuttered.