After studying at The King's School, Canterbury he matriculated to Jesus College, Cambridge,[1] which he represented in rugby and cricket.
Called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1899, he took a place in the chambers of George Cave after graduation in 1900.
[citation needed] After playing for the England national rugby union team against both Scotland and Wales he threw himself into his work as a barrister, and built up a successful practice.
[2] In February 1929 was knighted and made a judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice.
[3] A well-respected and hard working judge as well as the senior puisne Chancery judge, Luxmoore was promoted to the Court of Appeal in October 1938 on the creation of a third division of the Court of Appeal, and made a privy councillor.