[4] He made his debut for Wales in the Home Nations Championship against England on 11 January 1902, playing at fullback and scoring a penalty.

He was curate at Mold, Flintshire, from 1903 to 1908, and at Corwen, Denbighshire,[3] before going to serve as an army chaplain in India in 1909, becoming based in garrisons in the Punjab under the Diocese of Lahore (most of the territory of which is now part of Pakistan).

[7] During the First World War he served within India and became senior chaplain to the Waziristan Field Force on the North-West Frontier in 1916–17.

He was remembered as a keen organiser of hockey, football and cricket matches for troops.

After leaving the army, he then ministered in England as Rector of Hanwood, Shropshire from 1929 to 1934 and for much of the same period was also Chaplain at Shrewsbury Prison.