Born into a long-established Bedfordshire family, Wade-Gery was educated at Winchester College, a contemporary of Arnold J. Toynbee and R.M.Y. Gleadowe, and at New College, Oxford, which he left with a First in Classical Moderations in 1911.
As the scion of an established Bedfordshire family, Wade-Gery attended Winchester College, where he was classmates with notable figures like Arnold J. Toynbee and R.M.Y. Gleadowe, and later studied at New College, Oxford, graduating with a First in Classical Moderations in 1911.