He was educated at St Paul's School, London and read classics at Trinity College, Oxford.
He earned his B.A.in 1890 and took first-class honours in Classical Moderations (1888) and Literae Humaniores (1890).
In 1893, Westminster School headmaster William Gunion Rutherford appointed him to a mastership.
In 1897, he was elected a Fellow of St John's, Oxford and appointed a Lecturer in Classics.
He died unmarried in a London nursing home following complications from surgery, at age 65.