Born on 22 June 1872 at Todmorden, the sixth son of the Rev. Rennell Francis Wynn Molesworth, rector of Washington, Co Durham, and his second wife Frances Elizabeth, daughter of Admiral George Henderson, he was descended from Robert, first Viscount Molesworth (1656-1725), ambassador and politician.

Born at Plymouth, 20 March 1871, the second son and second child of Samuel Bartlett Rawling, civil engineer, and Sarah Ade Bathe Withers, his wife. His elder brother, Brigadier-General Cecil Godfrey Rawling, CMG, CIE, DSO, of the Dorset Light Infantry, was in command of the Gartok survey party and w

Born in Australia on 30 November 1871, the youngest child of Sir William Foster Stawell, afterwards Chief Justice of Victoria, and his wife, *née* Greene. An elder brother, Sir Richard Rawdon Stawell, KBE, MD (1864-1935) became consulting physician to Melbourne Hospital. Stawell was educated at Geel

Born at Wigan on 10 December 1870 eldest son of John Pendlebury a clothing manufacturer of Standish, Lancashire, he was educated at St John's College, Grimsargh near Preston, and at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was exhibitioner, prizeman and University scholar, and took first-class honours