He attended prep school at the Grange School, Shorncliffe Road, Folkestone and hoped to follow his brother Charles to Marlborough College; in the end he went on to Dover College which was more local, despite the fact the family moved in 1919 to Bron Dirion in North Wales.
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After Dover College, Edgar went to Canada with his second cousin John Hornby ("Hornby of the North") and with him and a companion, Harold Adlard, died of starvation near the Thelon River barren lands.
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The Bruce Valpy play Hornby was performed in the 2007 Canterbury Festival by pupils from Dover College.
Whalley's interest in the story of John Hornby began when he read Unflinching, the edition of Edgar Christian's diary that was published in 1937, before World War II.
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