He was born in Gillingham, Kent, on 26 July 1906[3] and educated at Brighton College[4] and Queens' College, Cambridge, before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with curacies at Romsey Abbey and St Saviour's, Ealing.
[6] After this he was vicar of St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood,[7] before his elevation to the episcopate[8] in 1938.
[9] He was consecrated Bishop of Colombo on All Saints' Day (17 November) 1938, by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey.
[10] He was translated to Gibraltar[11] on 25 September 1947 (invested by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth Palace Chapel).
[12] A sub-prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, he died in post on 10 March 1953.