[1] Educated at The King's School, Canterbury and Jesus College, Cambridge,[2] he was ordained in 1905 and after a curacy at Leyton became secretary of the Church Pastoral-Aid Society.
Incumbencies at Benwell, Southport and Oxford followed,[3] before he became Provost of Bradford Cathedral in 1933.
Elevation to the Episcopate followed ten years later and he stayed in this, his final post, until retirement in 1951.
He married firstly Josephine Denham Gildea, eldest daughter of John Randolph Gildea of Weatherfort Hall Co. Mayo Ireland on the 5 June 1909 in St Marylebone Parish Church, London England.
He married secondly Margaret Cicely Skrine, daughter of Henry Mills Skrine and Mary Jane Gore-Langton and great-granddaughter of Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, on 4 August 1915 in Holy Trinity Church, Sloan Street, London.