Was educated at St Paul's and Clifton schools, matriculating in 1900 and then studied at King's College, Cambridge University, taking a B.A. 1903; LL.B. 1904 and M.A. 1907. He was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, on June 27, 1906.
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