Born at Maidstone on 23 February 1878, the youngest son of Henry Hughes a solicitor, he was educated at Maidstone School, the Middlesex Hospital and St Bartholomew's Hospital. After qualification he held appointments as house physician and house surgeon to Sir Henry Morris, later as assistant demons

Born 12 September 1878 at St Charles Square, London, W, the second son of Thomas Kelly, colonel in the Egyptian Army, and Catherine Fitzmaurice, his wife. His elder brother, James Fitzmaurice-Kelly (1857-1923), was Professor of Spanish Language and Literature at the University of London, 1916-20 (se