[1] Following service in France, Greece and Mesopotamia during the First World War, he was awarded a commission, and left the Army in 1921.

[1] He studied at Wadham College, Oxford and then became an assistant to Sir Sidney Lee with his work on Shakespeare.

[1] He lost this seat standing as a 'National Independent' in the 1945 general election, following the official dissolution of National Labour.

At the 1950 general election, he stood as the Conservative candidate in the Buckingham constituency, but failed to unseat the sitting Labour Member of Parliament, Aidan Crawley.

He died at his home in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, on 13 October 1975, and is buried in Calverton Road cemetery, Stony Stratford in Milton Keynes, along with his wife Frances.