He was educated at Newcastle-under-Lyme High School and matriculated at Keble College, Oxford on 17 October 1887.

[3] He began with a curacy at Bethnal Green and held a succession of inner city posts in the east of London.

Their son Michael MC (1912–1942) was killed in action at the battle of El Alamein.

[8] Their daughter, Mildred Betty (1909–2005), who married Michael Ridley (vicar of Pimlico and Finchley), became one of the most senior lay persons in the Church of England as the Third Church Estates Commissioner.

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