He was born in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, the son of the Reverend George James Ayre and Margaret Mary Burgess, and was educated in Bath, Somersetshire and at Hymers College in Hull, Yorkshire.
Hymers College – more difficult to get into than the LEA grammar schools, so offered a highly prized education.
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