Born on 15 August 1871 at 136 Burdett Road, Mile End Old Town, Middlesex, the second child and second son of Ebenezer Ince, a merchant's clerk, and Sarah Hastings Farrow, his wife. He was educated at Northgate School, Winchester, and took his medical training at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, where he was demonstrator of materia medica, assistant demonstrator of anatomy, and medallist in surgery. At the Hospital itself he served as house surgeon, assistant anaesthetist, and clinical assistant in the ear department. After a period as resident medical officer to the Kensington Dispensary, he settled in practice at Sturry near Canterbury in 1899, and became medical officer and public vaccinator for the Sturry district of Blean Union. Ince married on 28 December 1899 Fanny Hodgson, who survived him with two sons and two daughters. He died at Sturry on 7 November 1942, aged 71. Mrs Ince died at Cambridge on 31 October 1943.