A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler,[1] he played four times for the Ireland cricket team in the 1920s,[2] including two first-class matches against Scotland.
[3] He made his first-class debut playing for Dublin University against Essex in July 1922.
His mother, Charlotte Maria, was the daughter of French neurologist Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard.
His mother Charlotte later wrote:[6] We have left Ireland since 1923, life was no longer possible for the Loyalists.
Our lives were threatened, especially because our only son, who had trained at Sandhurst Military School, joined the Irish Guards and had taken part in the last battles against the Germans, his heart being all for France.