Education
Wells was educated at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford.
Wells was educated at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford.
He was coxswain of the Oxford boat in the Boat Race from 1911 to 1914. The Leander eight beat the crew from New College, Oxford, by one length in the Olympic final at Stockholm. Wells was called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn in 1914.
On the outbreak of World War I, he joined the 6th London Brigade and was awarded the Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1919.
He was appointed a County Court Judge in 1934 and retired in 1958.