Background
Chaundy was born to widowed businessman John Chaundy and his second wife Sarah Pates in their shop-cum-home at 49 Broad Street in Oxford.
Chaundy was born to widowed businessman John Chaundy and his second wife Sarah Pates in their shop-cum-home at 49 Broad Street in Oxford.
Balliol College.
John had eight children, one of whom died as a toddler, with his late first wife and died barely a year after Chaundy was born. The Chaundy home along Broad Street has since been demolished. Chaundy attended Oxford High School for Boys and read mathematics at Balliol College, Oxford on a scholarship.
In 1912 he became a lecturer at Oxford and later named a Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford.