Painter, draughtsman, photographer and teacher, born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, into a family which on both sides included artists. He attended Bristol and Leicester Schools of Art, then in 1909 won the Bennet Scholarship and a free studentship to the Royal College of Art; returned to Leicester for two years to train for his painting diploma; and postponed return to the Royal College when World War I began. He was commissioned in the Army and served in Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine, was mentioned in dispatches and was twice wounded. With a miniature camera in his tobacco pouch he took hundreds of films (in 1931 Fripp was elected a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and he won several medals). Returned to Royal College in 1919, graduating in 1921.