He enrolled at the University of Melbourne to study law in 1885, where he was resident at Trinity College.

[1] He was called to the bar in 1894 and became a solicitor, returning to Tasmania to practise at Latrobe and later forming a partnership with T. A.

[2][3][4] He was a member of the Latrobe Town Board and the board of management of the Devon Hospital and a prominent local Freemason, serving as master of the Concord Masonic Lodge and a longstanding member of the Latrobe Mistletoe Lodge.

[7] He was appointed Vice-President of the Executive Council in the first Bruce Ministry from February 1923 to June 1926.

[2][8] In 1931, he was elected as a Nationalist to the Tasmanian House of Assembly seat of Wilmot, but was defeated for re-election in 1934.