Papers of W.M. Childs 1869-1940

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Papers of W.M. Childs 1869-1940

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3 albums and 9 boxes

eng,

Reading University : Special Collections Services

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Childs, W. M. (William Macbride), 1869-1939

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W. M. Childs

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William Macbride Childs was born in 1869 at Carrington near Boston in Lincolnshire, the only son of the second marriage of Rev W.L. Childs to Henrietta Fowles Bell, although he had 2 half-sisters and a half-brother from his father's first marriage. William was educated at home until he was 10 when, his father having moved to a living in Portsea, he went first to Portsmouth Grammar School and then won a scholarship in modern history to Keble College Oxford. While at Oxford he worked ...