<prompt> Bhala okuqhubekayo kwalesi sigaba - UFrancis Howard Bickerton wazalelwa e-Iffley, e-Oxfordshire, ngoJanuwari 15, 1889, indodana kaJoseph Jones Bickerton 18391894, ikhansela le-liberal kanye nomabhalane wedolobha lase-Oxford, nomkakhe wesibili u-Eliza Frances Fox 18491896. Ngemuva kokushona kwabo bobabili abazali, uBickerton nodadewabo, uDorothea, baba yizigwegwe zomalume wabo, udokotela wezinzwa uDkt Edward Lawrence Fox 18591938, owayehlala e-9 Osborne Place ePlymouth, Devon. UBickerton wathola imfundo yakhe yokuqala kuJoseph John Cross eNewton Abbot Hall ngaphambi kokudlulela eMarlborough College, lapho afike khona ngo-1901 kuya ku-1904. Ngo-1906 wabhalisa eLondons City Guilds Technical College lapho aba khona omunye wabafundi bokuqala bekolishi abafunda ubunjiniyela bezindiza. Ayikho irekhodi lokuthi uBickerton wake waphothula iziqu, kodwa cishe ngo-1910 waya emsebenzini kwenye yezindawo zokuncibilikisa insimbi eBedford futhi, ngenkathi ehlala kulelo dolobha, wahlangana futhi waba umngane nomhloli wamazwe wase-Antarctic u-Aeneas Mackintosh owayengumakadebona we-Shackleton Nimrod Expedition  <response>: Izindaba Ngo-March 1911 la madoda amabili ahamba ayofuna amagugu esiQhingini saseCocos kodwa abuya engenalutho ngemva kwezinyanga ezintathu. 