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Alan was born in Dulwich, London, to Alfred Walter Bush ( 1869 – 1935 ), a director of the manufacturing chemists, W. J. Bush & Co., and his wife, Alice Maud Brinsley ( 1870 – 1951 ).

He was educated first at Highgate School ( 1911 – 17 ) and then at the Royal Academy of Music ( 1918 – 22 ), where he studied composition under Frederick Corder and piano with Tobias Matthay.