Born at Leeds on 27 January 1872, the third son and sixth child of Charles Henry Taylor, an iron-founder, he was educated at the Leeds Boys' Modern School and at the Yorkshire College, which afterwards became the Victoria University, graduating BA in 1891, and afterwards entering the medical departm

Born at Bristol 19 February 1875, the ninth child and sixth son of the Rev John Mackie, Rector of Fylton, Glos, and Annis Bennett his second wife. John Mackie was twice married; there were five sons and two daughters of the first marriage, and one daughter and three sons of the second. He was educat