Editing Francis Younghusband (section)

== Early life ==
Francis Younghusband was born in 1863 at [[Murree]], [[British India]] (now Pakistan), to a British military family, being the brother of Major-General [[George Younghusband]] and the second son of Major-General John W. Younghusband<ref name="IndianBio" /> and his wife Clara Jane Shaw. Clara's brother, [[Robert Barkley Shaw|Robert Shaw]], was a noted explorer of [[Central Asia]]. His uncle Lieutenant-General [[Charles Younghusband]] CB FRS, was a British Army officer and meteorologist.

As an infant, Francis was taken to live in England by his mother. When Clara returned to India in 1867 she left her son in the care of two austere and strictly religious aunts. In 1870 his mother and father returned to England and reunited the family. In 1876 at age thirteen, Francis entered [[Clifton College]], [[Bristol]]. In 1881 he entered the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]], and was commissioned as a [[Subaltern (rank)|subaltern]] in the [[1st King's Dragoon Guards]] in May 1882.<ref name="IndianBio" /><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25105|page=2157|date=9 May 1882}}</ref>