[1] Born in 1873 and educated at Radley and Oriel College, Oxford,[2] he was ordained in 1899.
[3] His first post was as a Curate of St Anne's Limehouse, after which he was Rector of St Margaret's Church, Lowestoft and then a Residentiary Canon at Gloucester Cathedral.
In 1919, he was appointed Provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh.
[4] In 1925, he became Dean of St Albans[5] and a decade later of Salisbury.
His son Edward was Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1960 to 1975.