[3] After wartime service with the RNVR, he completed his degree and joined the Cambridge Mission to Delhi.
Upon return, he trained for the ministry at Westcott House, Cambridge and was ordained a deacon by Arthur Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London, at St Paul's Cathedral on 20 December 1925[4] and a priest by William Perrin, Bishop of Willesden, at St Saviour's Hampstead on 19 December 1926.
[6] During his curacy he was also London Secretary for SCM from 1926, and, in 1929, he married Dorothy Ramsbotham, who died in 1979.
From 1931 to 1949 he was Vicar of Lowdham, serving also as chaplain of the local borstal (1931–1945), an honorary canon of Southwell Cathedral (1942–1949) and Rural Dean of Gedling (1946–1949).
He held the Deanery of Stamford jointly with the Suffragan See Diocese of Lincoln as Bishop suffragan of Grantham from his ordination and consecration as a bishop on 18 October 1949 at Southwark Cathedral[7] by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury,[8] until he retired in 1965.