Born 22 February 1873, the fifth child and third son of the Rev Robert Vaughan Pryce, DD, and Elizabeth Tippetts his wife. His father was principal of New College, London University, the Congregational theological college, from 1889 to 1907, and died in 1917; his grandfather George Pryce, FSA, had b

Born at Bedford on 5 October 1873 the third son of Edward Paine Rose, who was in business in the town, and Fanny Atcherley, his wife. He was educated at Bedford Modern School and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he gained a science scholarship in 1892 and graduated with first-class honours in