Craike-Pickering, MC, Maurice Stanley
BORN BEVERLEY 30/12/1886. YOUNGEST SON OF SETH PICKERING (1846-1905) & MARY CRAIKE (1848-1904), OF ‘THE HAWTHORNES’, BEVERLEY. EDUCATED AT BEVERLEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL. HIS FATHER WAS A CABINET MAKER AND SHOP KEEPER IN BEVERLEY. HE WORKED AS AN APPRENTCIE CABINET MAKER FOR HIS FATHER AND LATER WAS A RUBBER PLANTER, IN DUTCH BORNEO. HE ENLISTED IN … Read more