Born in South India, 25 October 1879, second child and only son of Cumarasingham Murugesapillai, a deputy collector in Tanjore, and Seethalakahmi Clarke, his wife. He was educated at the Hindu High School, Triplicane, Madras, and at the Presidency College, Madras. He came to England and took the Con

Born at Dunedin, New Zealand, on 17 June 1882, he came of a distinguished family. His father Robert Gillies was a land agent and a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives, and his mother was Emily Street from Birtley, near Guildford. Edward Lear, the artist and nonsense-verse write, was h