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He was born in Swaby, Lincolnshire, on 4 January 1872, the 2nd son of the Revd James Cholmeley, Rector of Swaby. He was educated at St Edwards School, Oxford between 1885-1890 and then became a Scholar at Corpus, achieving a 2nd class degree in Literae Humaniores in 1894: he was also a member of the Owlets Club as both its Secretary and President in 1893. After university, he was an Assistant Master at Manchester Grammar School (1895), the City of London School (1898) and then Professor of Latin and Classical Literature at Rhodes University College, Grahamstown, South Africa (in1905): he then was the Senior Classics Master at the Scottish College, Melbourne in 1909 before becoming the Classics Lecturer and Librarian at the University of Queensland in 1911. He married Lilian Mary, daughter of the Revd T.D. Lamb in 1896 and published De moribus et vitae consuetudine in Saxea, quae dicitur aetate (in 1893), Principiorum liber (1910) and edited Theocritus’ Idylls (in 1901). He saw military service in South Africa with the City Imperial Volunteers in 1900 and re-enlisted on 9 August 1915. He was twice wounded, won his Military Cross on 27 September 1917 and finally drowned at sea on active service in North Russia on 16 August 1919.