[3] Educated at Masonic Boys School and Trinity College Dublin, where he graduated in history and political science in 1928.
[4] He served as a chaplain with military forces during the Second World War, notably parachuting into Arnhem in 1944 and being captured by the Germans.
In the early 1970s, he spoke to the Diocesan Synod of Dublin: "Is it right to limits the possibility of ordination to one half of the Church?
Our House of Bishops has recently echoed the view of Lambeth that there is no theological reason against the ordination of women.
He personally invited and trained the first five women to be commissioned Lay Readers in the Church of Ireland in 1975, including Daphne Wormell and Patricia Hastings-Hardy.