 To obtain the best possible education for Ray, his mother, originally from Ireland, moved them to the area of Upper Norwood in what is now the London Borough of Croydon in 1900.Another uncle, a successful lawyer in Waterford, Ireland, reluctantly supported them 
while they lived with Chandler's maternal grandmother.Raymond was a first cousin to the actor Max Adrian, a founder member of the Royal Shakespeare Company; Max's mother Mabel was a sister of Florence Thornton.