Bor was born in
Tramore,
County Waterford in Ireland in 1893, the son of E.C.N. Bor and Mabel Thornton. He studied at
Kilkenny and
Mountjoy School in Dublin. He then received a BA at
Trinity College, Dublin before travelling to Scotland to obtain a BSc at
Edinburgh University in 1921. On graduating he received a post in the Indian Forest Service where he worked until 1946. During this period (in 1931) he married
Eleanor Constance Rundall. During the First World War he served in the
Connaught Rangers in France, Greece and Palestine. He was wounded in 1916. He was an elder brother of the actor
Max Adrian, who died four weeks after him. ==Memberships==