He wrote several published reports on industrial and economic affairs in Norway.

[1] He attended Bradford Grammar School and Jesus College, Oxford (1900–1904), where he graduated with a master's degree in 1904.

[2][3] He became commercial attaché at the British Embassy in Oslo in December 1914, in succession to Sir Francis Oppenheimer, was promoted to commercial secretary for Norway in May 1919 and served as the British consul in Oslo from 1926 to 1931.

[1][4] A member of the Norwegian Paus family, he was a son of the Norwegian-born businessman Christopher Paus (1843–1919) of Manchester and an English mother, Ellen née Lord (1847–1917).

Some of his private papers are owned by the Imperial War Museum.