Early Life
The eldest son of the geologist Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen, Henry was born in Teignmouth, and attended the Royal Grammar School, Guildford. His mother, Maria Elizabeth Godwin-Austen, was the only child of Major General Sir Henry Godwin (1784–1853), who commanded the British and Indian forces in the First and Second Anglo-Burmese Wars.
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