sanderson was born and brought up outside the british public-school system that he was to affect so profoundly. his early education was obtained in a parish school. his father was employed in the estate office of lord boyne at brancepeth in durham. there were several brothers but they all died before manhood, and the scanty indications one can glean of those early years suggest a slender, studious, and probably rather delicate youngster. he was never very proficient in any out-of-door games. in the early days at oundle he careered about on a bicycle; in later years he played tennis; his vacation exercise was rock-scrambling. he became a 'student-teacher,' so the official life phrases it, at a school at tudhoe, but whether there was any difference between being a student-teacher at a school at tudhoe and being an ordinary pupil-teacher in an ordinary elementary school under the english education[pg 10] department i have been unable to ascertain. he was already notable in his village world as exceptionally intelligent, industrious, and ambitious, and with a little encouragement from the local vicar and one or two friends he effected an escape from the strangling limitations of elementary teaching.