[2] He was educated at Brighton Grammar School in Melbourne and then worked for the Imperial Insurance Company for a year.
[3] He married the daughter of senior civil servant James Thomas.
[1] In 1920 he was elected to the Legislative Council from the Vanua Levu & Taveuni constituency.
After being elected, he introduced a motion for Chinese labour to be recruited, which failed.
[4] He did not complete a full term, with William Edmund Willoughby-Tottenham elected to replace him in October 1922.