He was born in Glastonbury as the youngest of six children and went on to work on the railways after serving in the First World War.

He married Mary Emma (née Williams) in October 1930 and the couple had one daughter, born in December 1931.

In the last year of Clement Attlee's Labour Government, he served from April to October 1951 as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.

After taking his seat in the House of Lords, he was a Minister without Portfolio from 1964 to 1967 in Harold Wilson's government.

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