At the 1934 British Empire Games he won again the gold medal in the hammer throw competition.

He was a graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied chemistry and wrote a thesis on metaphenetidine.

In the Second World War he served as an officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training Branch) while a schoolmaster.

His practical demonstrations of the reaction of sodium with water were popular and famous among his pupils.

[9] Later he worked at Harwell and then was Head of Laboratories[10] at CENTO Institute of Nuclear & Applied Science in Tehran.