Personal Life
Firth married Rosemary Firth (née Upcott) in 1936. They had one son, Hugh, who was born in 1946. Rosemary died in 2001. Raised a Methodist, Firth later became a humanist, a decision influenced by his anthropological studies. He was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto.
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