He taught chemistry at the Colonial College, Hollesley and in 1904 he joined the Indian Tea Association in Assam.
He worked on bacterial nitrogen fixation, green manures and humus.
He also worked on other agricultural issues including the pebrine disease of silkworm,[2] bacteriology in indigo fermentation and in the sterilization of water using chlorine.
He was also a skilled photographer and his interest in golf made him an advisor for turf management.
Through this marriage his sisters in law were engineer and business woman Sheila Leather, and Wenonah Hardwick Leather, who married Eric Cecil Ansorge.