Born at Middlesbrough on 16 June 1876 son of Robert Telford, accountant, of Withington and Mary Ann Davison his wife, he was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I, 1897. He was an assistant surgeon

Born 12 June 1876 at 23 Portland Square, Carlisle, the eldest son of. Roderick Maclaren, MD, surgeon to the Cumberland Infirmary, and Isabella Emma Campbell, his wife. He was educated at Rugby when Dr Percival was headmaster, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge as a pensioner on 25 June 1894. He