Born 30 September 1873 at Isleworth Vicarage, the younger son of the Rev H W P Richards, prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral, and his wife Jessie Margaret, daughter of the Rt Hon Peter Erie, QC, PC. He was a King's Scholar at Eton 1887-92, from whence he went up to New College, Oxford; he took first-c

Born at Woolwich on 23 August 1876, only son of George Whale, solicitor, and Matilda Whale, his wife. He was educated at Bradfield, at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he played lawn-tennis for the university club "The Grasshoppers", and at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he served as house physician