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Born in Cork on 26 August 1912, the 1st son of Simon Spiro, a merchant, and Sara [Bergson] of London W11, he was educated at St Paul’s School, London, and proved a gifted scholar at Corpus, achieving a 1st in both his Classics Moderations in 1933 and in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1935: he was awarded the Junior Medley Scholarship in 1934. He then became a Civil Servant in the Ministry of Transport and, In WW2, served as an Ordinary Seaman in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He was posted as missing, presumed killed in action, aboard HMS Firedrake on 6 December 1942 (aged 30).