<prompt> Ngwala tšwetšopele ya serapa se - Francis Howard Bickerton o belegetšwe Iffley, Oxfordshire, ka 15 January 1889, e le morwa wa Joseph Jones Bickerton 18391894, khanselara ya tokologo le mongwaledi wa toropo ya Oxford, le mosadi wa gagwe wa bobedi Eliza Frances Fox 18491896. Ka morago ga lehu la pele la batswadi ka bobedi, Bickerton le kgaetšedi ya gagwe, Dorothea, ba ile ba ba bahlokomedi ba malome wa bona wa mmago bona, setsebi sa malwetši a bjoko Ngaka Edward Lawrence Fox 18591938, ba dula 9 Osborne Place ka Plymouth, Devon. Bickerton o hweditše thuto ya gagwe ya mathomo go Joseph John Cross kua Newton Abbot Hall pele a fetela Marlborough College, moo a tsenego go tloga ka 1901 go fihla ka 1904. Ka 1906 o ile a ingwadiša City Guilds Technical College ya London moo a ilego a ba yo mongwe wa barutwana ba mathomo ba kholetšhe go ithuta boentšeneere bja difofane. Ga go na pego ya gore Bickerton o kile a aloga semmušo, eupša mo e ka bago ka 1910 o ile a ya go šoma go e nngwe ya difeketori tša tšhipi kua Bedford gomme, ge a be a dula toropong yeo, o ile a kopana le go ba mogwera wa mosepediši wa Antarctic Aeneas Mackintosh yo a tšerego karolo ya leeto la Nimrode la Shackleton  <response>: Mongwalo o sekamego ke wa rena. Ka March 1911 banna ba ba babedi ba ile ba thoma leeto la go tsoma lehumo Sehlakahlakeng sa Cocos eupša ba boa ba se na selo ka morago ga dikgwedi tše tharo. 