Born on 14 August 1872 at Moss Hall, Finchley, Middlesex, the elder son of John Campin Newman, stockbroker, and Fanny, his wife, daughter of Roger Peele of Park House, South Molton, North Devon. He was educated at Rugby and at Trinity College, Cambridge, before entering St Bartholomew's Hospital, wh

William Stewart Dickie was born in Glasgow on 10 December 1872. He began work as an office boy in an iron foundry at the age of 13, but when he was 15 he decided to go to sea and sailed as an apprentice in the four-master *Madagascar*. He took his second mate's certificate and his chief officer's ex