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His biography on the college website states: ‘Reginald Squarey was born in Cheshire, the eleventh of the twelve children of David MacIver and Edith Eleanor Squarey of Birkenhead. David MacIver owned ships carrying out a coastal trade between England, Ireland and Scotland. He became a Member of Parliament and a partner in the managing owners of the Cunard Shipping Company.
Reginald was educated at Shrewsbury and came up to Christ Church in 1911. At the time of the 1911 census, he was staying at the Strand Palace Hotel in London with his mother, a sister and his younger brother. He joined the 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers at the outbreak of war, served in Belgium and France, and was killed in action on the Somme. He is commemorated on the Great War memorial at Ambleside, with his brother Andrew who had been killed in April 1915. Robert, a brother by their father’s first marriage, was also killed. Probate was granted to his mother on 19 September 1916. He left £247-18s-9d.