Born in 1876 he was younger son of Colonel (afterwards General Sir) Charles Warren KCB, GCMG, FRS and Fanny Margaretta Haydon his wife. His grandfather, Major-General Sir Charles Warren KCB, had been Colonel of the 96th Regiment; his father, the second Sir Charles Warren (1840-1927), was a distingui

Born 23 November 1874 the fourth child and second son of John Mortimer Hunt, a business man, and his wife, née Henderson. He was educated at Harrow, at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took first-class honours in the final school of physiology and worked for a year with Professor J S Haldane, and a