Born on 23 January 1886 at 10 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square W1, the second son of Sir Alfred Pearce Gould, KCVO, surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, and his second wife, a daughter of Mr Justice Lush and grand-daughter of Lord Justice Sir Robert Lush (1807-81), of whom there is an account in th

Born 3 December 1882 the second of three brothers he was educated at Harrow and King's College, Cambridge, where he was a scholar and was placed in the first division of the second class in the Classical Tripos, part I, 1905. He rowed for his college and was captain of the University swimming team.