Elmhirst was born in 1895, the fourth son of a Priest.
The friendship thus begun grew with the years and Elmhirst later became his chief associate in the planning
On 4January 1925 the poet and his companion Elmhirst bade goodbye to their hostess and sailed from Buenos Aires.
It was recorded at the legendary Electric Studios in New York, founded by Jimmy Hendrix,
and was mastered by Tom Elmhirst.
Elmhirst commanded a Naval Air ship between 1915 to 1918,
after which he took over command of a the 8th Airship Squadron.
Even more valuable was the foundation laid of a lifelong friendship with Dorothy Straight and Leonard K. Elmhirst whom she later married
The Hibbert Lectures delivered in Oxford later in the month were published in the following years as The Religion of Man,
dedicated to Dorothy Elmhirst.
Leonard Elmhirst has related that Tagore himself some time later gave him a gist of his conversation with the Mahatma on that memorable day.
Even more valuable was the foundation laid of a lifelong friendship with Dorothy Straight and Leonard K. Elmhirst whom she later married
and who was at that time a student of agriculture at Cornell.
The journey to South America had proved too strenuous for the Nobel laureate and Ocampo prevailed upon his friend and secretary,
Leonard Elmhirst, to convince him to stay at a garden house in San Isidro.
It was Air Marshal Elmhirst, who insisted that the Indian Air Force be
an independent service under no control of the Army, unlike previously when the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army exercised control over the Air Force too.
He felt hurt and humiliated at this fiasco and confessed in a letter to Elmhirst:" Somehow I have the unenviable knack
of getting myself entangled in responsibilities that should have been avoided and I regret that I ever allowed myself to pay this last' visit to Italy.
The friendship thus begun grew with the years and Elmhirst later became his chief associate in the planning
of a remarkable centre for experiments in regional development of rural education and economy at Sriniketan, a fitting counterpart of the neighbouring cultural and international centre at Santiniketan Both he and his wife continued to help the Institute with generous financial assistance even after Elmhirst' s return to his country.