He designed many civic and corporate coats of arms, served as heraldic advisor to local government associations, and published monographs on the subject.

He attended the University of Manchester where he graduated with a degree in French in 1937 and then a teaching certificate in 1938.

He taught a number of subjects and was heavily involved in the school's sporting and extracurricular activities.

[3] He designed arms for many local authorities and corporate bodies in England, Australia and South Africa.

[6] His doctoral dissertation was on French Historical Elements in the Civic Heraldry of the United Kingdom (1985).