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

Born at Kobe, Japan on 25 September 1875, the elder son of John Kirkaldy Cunningham, a merchant, and Florence Heaslop, his wife. His father retired from business and settled at Axminster in 1887, and sent his son to Sherborne School. He entered at Michaelmas term 1889 and left in 1894, having been c

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