Abstract
Morley Benjamin Crane was born in Lambeth on 17 March 1890 shortly after his father had died. His mother, who came from Suffolk, soon returned with her infant son to East Anglia, where she met and married Ernest Wiseman, a young fruit grower of Kelvedon in Essex. The young Crane was brought up in the family with three half-brothers and a half-sister. His early life is somewhat obscure. It seems likely that his step-father was employed at different times in the nurseries or orchards of large East Anglian estates, and that his family moved round with him. Crane himself first attended school at the age of four in Ditchingham, Norfolk, where he was taught by Miss Lilian Haggard, the daughter of Sir Rider Haggard, who had an estate there. He left school when he was twelve years old.
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