After a curacy in Stepney he became head of the Oxford House University Settlement in nearby Bethnal Green.
A brief spell as chaplain to Cosmo Gordon Lang (Archbishop of York) was followed by a decade as the parish priest of Armley.
Promotion to be the Sub Dean of Diocese of Coventry in 1922 was swiftly followed by elevation to the episcopate.
[4] After 16 years at Whitby he made a sideways move to become Bishop of Selby- a post he held only for 18 months.
[5] His Times obituary noted his capacity for "getting on with and getting the best out of all conditions of men.