The 1881 Census lists him as tutor at Westbury House Preparatory School, 12 Liverpool Terrace, Worthing, Sussex.
He had a significant influence on one pupil at the school, the eleven-year-old Arthur Tansley, future founder of the British Ecological Society.
He was ordained deacon in Calcutta in 1888, and appointed curate of St Andrew's church, Hertford.
He was Headmaster of Long Marston Grammar School from 1893 to 1895, and then Rector of Whitchurch, Warwickshire from 1896 to 1917.
[3] His daughter was the novelist Ursula Bloom, who in 1963 published a memoir of her father, Parson Extraordinary.