Born at Brisbane, Australia on 6 September 1888, the third child and Second son of John Graham Brown, general manager of the Queensland Government Railways, and Amelia Morris, his wife. The family had come go Australia from Ulster. He was educated at Brisbane Grammar School, where he distinguished h

Born on 1 May 1893, the son of an Instructor Captain in the Royal Navy and his French wife, he was born at Brest and spent his infancy in Japan, with the result that he could speak Japanese before he could speak English. Educated at Portsmouth Grammar School and the Middlesex Hospital, he qualified