[1][2] He spent some of his early education at The Cathedral School, Llandaff.
Firmly attached to the policies of Charles Green as Archbishop of Wales,[clarification needed] he was a meticulous upholder of Anglo-Catholic principles.
[citation needed] He witnessed the bombing of Llandaff Cathedral in January 1941 and presided over its earlier reconstruction, one of his last engagements being its rededication on 10 April 1957.
He was consecrated a bishop on 22 May 1934, by Alfred Edwards, Archbishop of Wales and Bishop of St Asaph, at St Asaph Cathedral.
[3] He then served as Bishop of Swansea and Brecon and ex-officio Dean of Brecon (1934–1939) and subsequently as Bishop of Llandaff (1939–1957), in which post he was also enthroned on 21 September 1949 as Archbishop of Wales (1949–1957).