He obtained a degree in Welsh in 1906, studying under Sir John Morris-Jones.
[1] He then became a research student at Jesus College, Oxford in 1907 for the postgraduate BLitt.
[1][2] In his obituary in The Times, it was said of him that he became " a sort of unofficial ambassador from Wales to Ireland".
[2] He won a prize at the National Eisteddfod in Caernarfon in 1921 for a work on the places names of Caernarfonshire, which was published in 1928 as Enwau lleoedd sir Gaernarfon.
In 1948, the British Academy asked him to deliver the lecture in memory of Sir John Rhys, and his topic was "The Court Poets of the Welsh Princes".