Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Nwa ụkọchukwu si Lincolnshire Wolds, a nabatara Garvey na agụmakwụkwọ choral na Trent College (Long Eaton) ebe ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ site na 1916 ruo 1923. Mgbe ahụ, ọ banyere Emmanuel College na Mahadum Cambridge, ebe ọ gụrụ akụkọ ihe mere eme wee nweta akara ugo mmụta B.A. na anthropology, ka ọ na-akwado ime ule nke ndị ọrụ gọọmentị, na-enwe olileanya isonye na ndị ọrụ gọọmentị India. O tinyere aka n'imebi
1926 General Strike, ma hụghị oge iji mụọ maka ule a, kama itinye akwụkwọ maka ọnọdụ na Colonial Service. Ọ nakweere ọnọdụ na Solomon Islands Protectorate, ma jiri ụgbọ mmiri si Southampton gaa Fiji na Nọvemba 1926.