 Victor was brought up by his mother, Jeanette Neuburg, "née" Jacobs (1855–1939), and his maternal aunts.He was educated at the City of London School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied medieval and modern languages.When he was 25, in around 1906, Neuburg came in contact with Crowley, also a poet, who had read some of Neuburg's pieces in the "Agnostic Journal".