Early Life
Born into an itinerant Quaker family, Hargrave was the son of painter Gordon Hargrave and his wife Babette Bing. He joined the Boy Scouts in 1908. He soon became a devotee of the naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton, and one of the leading Scout authorities on Woodcraft. He was educated at Hawkshead Grammar School and initially followed in his father's artistic footsteps, working as a cartoonist for C. Arthur Pearson Ltd whilst still in his teens.
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