[1] Educated at Norwich School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,[2] he was Vicar of St James's, Holloway,[3] then St Mary's, Swansea (where he was also a Canon of Brecon Cathedral) and finally Archdeacon of Bradford.
During his last year before ascending to the Episcopate he was also the inaugural Provost of Bradford Cathedral.
A prominent Freemason,[4] he had a "sympathetic understanding of the poor".
[5] The bishop was discovered dead at home by his son-in-law on 16 August, after returning the prior Thursday, 12 August, from a lengthy vacation with his family, who had remained behind.
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