[1] He was born in London on 8 June 1902 the son of Henry Robert Say and his wife, Elizabeth Sarah Eckersall.
He was educated at Colfe's Grammar School in Horn Park east of London.
He then studied electrical engineering at Imperial College, London under Prof T Mather, G W O Howe and Parker Smith, graduating BSc in 1921.
His proposers were James Cameron Smail, Alexander Robert Horne, Sir Thomas Hudson Beare, and John Brown Clark.
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