Early Life
Kelly, the fourth son of Irish-born woolbroker Thomas Herbert Kelly and his native-born wife Mary Anne, née Dick, was born in 1881 at 47 Phillip Street, Sydney, Australia. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School then sent to England and educated at Eton College, where he stroked the school eight to victory in the Ladies' Challenge Plate at Henley Royal Regatta in 1899.
Kelly was awarded a Lewis Nettleship musical scholarship at Oxford in this year, and went up to Balliol College, Oxford (B.A., 1903; M.A., 1912), became president of the university musical club and a leading spirit at the Sunday evening concerts at Balliol. He was a protégé of Ernest Walker.
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