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He was born in Kensington, London, on 7 February 1882, the 3rd son of Charles Stanton Devas, a political economist and author, of Bath. He was educated at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire (1898-1901) before coming up to Corpus and achieving a 2nd class degree in Literae Humaniores in 1905: at college he had numerous other roles - Secretary, Debating Society (1902), Secretary of the Tenterden Essay Club (1903), its President in 1904 and Secretary and then President of the Pelican Essay Club in 1904. After university he became a Barrister in the Inner Temple in 1907 and worked on the Western Circuit, notably in the Bath, Bristol and Somerset Sessions, in 1907-1914; he was also appointed to National Insurance Commission in 1911. He married on 25 September 1915 Elizabeth Helen [Fleet] at Westminster Cathedral having enlisted in November 1914.