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Born in Preston, Lancashire, on 30 December 1911, the 2nd son of Walter Rainford, the manager of boot and shoe repair company in Preston, he was educated at Preston Grammar School and then Bristol University where he achieved a 2nd class degree in French in 1934. He came up to Corpus for one year in 1934-35 to take the Oxford Diploma in Education course. He served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, the Radio Officer on HMS Howe, until he was killed during an air-raid on Portland Harbour on 21 June 1940 (aged 28).