Dee ihe ga-aga n'ihu na paragraf a - A mụrụ Francis Howard Bickerton na Iffley, Oxfordshire, na 15 Jenụwarị 1889, nwa Joseph Jones Bickerton (1839<unk>1894), onye ndụmọdụ na onye odeakwụkwọ obodo nke Oxford, na nwunye ya nke abụọ Eliza Frances Fox (1849<unk>1896). Mgbe nne na nna ya abụọ nwụsịrị n'oge, Bickerton na nwanne ya nwanyị, Dorothea, ghọrọ ndị nlekọta nke nwanne nna ha, onye ọkà n'akparamàgwà mmadụ Dr Edward Lawrence Fox (1859<unk>1938), bi na 9 Osborne Place na Plymouth, Devon. Bickerton nwetara agụmakwụkwọ mbụ ya n'aka Joseph John Cross na Newton Abbot Hall tupu ọ gaa Marlborough College, ebe ọ banyere site na 1901 ruo 1904. N'afọ 1906, ọ debara aha na City & Guilds (Technical) College nke London ebe ọ ghọrọ otu n'ime ụmụ akwụkwọ mbụ nke kọleji iji mụọ injinia ụgbọ elu. Onweghi ihe edere banyere Bickerton mgbe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ n'ụzọ iwu, mana ihe dịka n'afọ 1910, ọ gara rụọ ọrụ n'otu n'ime ụlọ ọrụ igwe na Bedford na, mgbe ọ bi n'obodo ahụ, ọ zutere ma bụrụ enyi na onye nyocha Antarctic Aeneas Mackintosh (onye agha nke Shackleton "Nimrod" Njem
) N'ihi ya, Na March 1911, ha abụọ gawara ịchọ akụ̀ dị oké ọnụ ahịa n'Agwaetiti Cocos, ma ha ji aka nkịtị lọta mgbe ọnwa atọ gasịrị.