He was director of the Victorian Department of Mines and chair of the Government Brown Coal Advisory Committee.
He was instrumental in the establishment of the Victorian State Electricity Commission taking a role as engineer for brown coal.
He married Florence Leslie Ramsay Salmon 2 April 1902, had three daughters and died on 7 June 1962.
As chair of the Government Brown Coal Advisory Committee, which reported in September 1917, he recommended the establishment of an Electricity Commission to develop the brown coal reserves and construct a power station and transmission lines.
He was a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers and its president for the year 1914 for a photographic Portrait see Museum Victoria