Early Life
Kelly was born in 1871 in Hampshire, the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Holdworth Kelly of the Royal Marine Artillery (1842-1919) and his wife Elizabeth Collum. He joined the navy in 1884 serving on the Australian Station and qualifying in gunnery. He served in the Second Boer War in HMS Forte.
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“Many a woman shudders ... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians ...”
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