[1] Between 1920 and 1921 he was Private Secretary to Sir William Edge, but left to enter the Colonial Service and serve as a Cadet in Hong Kong.
[2] He was appointed to the post of Police Magistrate in Kowloon in 1926, and also acted as Assistant to the Attorney General and Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court there.
[1] Between 1927 and 1932 he served in Iraq as the Legal Secretary of the High Commissioner and in 1928 and 1931, in addition, he also functioned as Acting British Consul in Baghdad.
[1] He succeeded Sir Joseph Sheridan as the Chief Justice of Kenya in 1946 and was knighted in the 1948 King's New Year Honours.
[1] He retired from the colonial service in 1956, and later served on a part-time basis as Speaker of the then Tanganyika Legislative Assembly and back in Britain on the Mental Health Appeals Council.