[1] He attended the Royal Academy of Music, where he won the Battison Haynes Prize in 1921 and the Charles Lucas Medal in 1923.
He married his wife Gladys Louise (1891-1975, also born in Beer) in 1922 and they moved to Harrow-on-the Hill, at 71 Whitmore Road, where they stayed the rest of their lives.
[5] His compositions included the Clarinet Quintet in E flat, inaugural winner of the Clements Memorial Prize in 1938, which was broadcast by the Whinyates String Quartet with soloist Pauline Juler on 22 July 1941,[6] and subsequently performed at Conway Hall (also by Juler) in 1946.
[9] A slow march, scored for military band, won a Liverpool Philharmonic Society competition in 1952, and was performed on 25 June that year.
[12] The memorial Durrant Prize was awarded for the first time in July 1980 by the Royal College of Organists.